The cyber security industry continues to warn of advanced malware, but a new Verizon study indicates that professionals within the industry are having to deal with the same issues they always have.
The telecommunications giant released all 70 pages of its Data Breach Investigations Report, in which it outlined statistics, such as an increase in exploitable software flaws and phishing, as well as data breaches that cost a potential £162 for every lost record.
The company suggested that online crime, much like last year, divided into the usual categories. In the past ten years, 92% of 100,000 cyber security incidents were in one of nine basic categories. This year sees that number increase to 96%.
The categories included in this figure were payment card skimmers at 0.1%, point of sale at 0.7%, cyber espionage at 0.8%, denial of service at 3.9%, web applications at 4.1%, and stolen or lost assets at 15.3%. The last three were made up of the misuse of privileges at 29.6%, the use of crimeware at 25.1%, and miscellaneous errors at 29.4%.
The researchers who worked on the report added:
“While the threats against us may “seem” innumerable, infinity varied, and ever-changing, the reality is they aren’t.”
While cyber categories may remain unchanged, the fact is that it is still a concern for today’s SME, as many recent headlines have proven. IT security jobs will need to be a higher priority for employers if they wish to avoid their firm from becoming the next cyber victim.
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