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Research shows scale of
cyberattacks in Europe in
the last two years
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W
ith the complexity of IT business
infrastructure on the rise and
the continuously evolving
threat landscape, IT decision makers find it
increasingly challenging to safeguard their
organisations from cyberattacks – more
than half of European businesses (54%)
have faced at least one cyberattack in the
last 24 months which resulted in some
sort of disruption in their activities. It is
also worth noting that 20% of IT decision
makers (ITDMs) say that the attackers
left no clue to their identity in the most
recent cyberattack to their organisation,
which draws attention once again to
the difficult task of cyber investigators –
these and other findings are covered in
Kaspersky Lab’s latest survey, which takes
the pulse of European organisations from a
cybersecurity perspective. the above-mentioned outcomes, versus 45%
of SMBs.
According to IT decision makers from
businesses in Europe, more than half
(54%) of organisations faced cyberattacks
and their consequences in the last 24
months. The most common outcomes of
the attacks were: service disruption (31%),
data integrity issues (18%) and data
loss (15%). This threat is not diminishing: over one in five
respondents (21%) say that the number of
cyberattacks on their business has increased
within the past 12 months, compared
to the previous year, while for 42% it
roughly stayed the same. Furthermore, the
complexity of cyberattacks is increasing too,
with one-in-five IT decision makers saying
that the threat actors attacking them left no
clue to their identity during the most recent
on their business.
Organisations in the UK and Spain are facing
the highest risks, with 64% of respondents
confirming such experiences in the past two
years. Despite traditionally having bigger
IT budgets compared to SMBs – 64% of
enterprises faced a cyberattack which lead to
With the amount of sensitive data flooding
the business world, it is vital for organisations
to discover a data breach immediately in
order to take the most effective incident
response measures. While it is good that
over two thirds (72%) of the surveyed
organisations find out about a breach in
eight hours or less, there is still a shocking
25% of businesses who fail to take action
during the first hours after the attack as
they do not realise they have been breached
until later. As previous research found, the
detection speed is crucial to lowering the
financial impact of an attack – immediate
detection means £456,000 cost of recovery,
as compared to £1.2 million for enterprises
that take more than a week to detect a
threat that entered their perimeter.
David Emm, Principal Security Researcher
at Kaspersky Lab UK, said: “The results
of the survey also confirm another trend
that we, from the cybersecurity industry,
have been pointing out for a while – that
attackers sneak throughout the organisation
and sometimes leave few or no traces,
making the challenge for investigators
increasingly difficult, as well as underlining
the importance of cooperation among
cybersecurity professionals.” n
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