More than three-quarters (88%) of hackers can break through cybersecurity defenses and into the systems they target within 12 hours, while 81% say they can identify and take valuable data within another 12 hours, even though the breach may not be discovered for hundreds of days, according to research by global technology company Nuix.
The Nuix Black Report—the results of a confidential survey of 70 professional hackers and penetration testers at DEFCON, the world's largest hacking and security conference—will overturn many conventional understandings and sacred cows of the cybersecurity industry.