The every shifting landscape of cyber crime and attacks has resulted in security professionals struggling to find ways to mitigate these threats. According to a recent report put out by Splunk, around 65% of security experts and industry leaders have witnessed cyber attack attempts increasing over the past year, and that is in line with trends that many other sectors have reported as well with all things having been considered and taken into account.
Perhaps the most commonly faced form of cyber attack is ransomware, with 79% of the 1,200 IT security experts surveyed in the report saying they encountered attacks of that variety. With all of that having been said and now out of the way, it is important to note that 35% of the ransomware attacks that were seen resulted in professionals losing valuable data and access to their systems, which indicates that many security experts don’t know how to keep these attacks at bay and might fail to prevent them in the coming year.
In spite of the fact that this is the case, around 84% of the people involved in this survey said that they have started to develop a standardized response for ransomware attacks. Creating a formal playbook for responses is useful because of the fact that this is the sort of thing that could potentially end up helping professionals figure out the best practice at a glance by relying on the combined resources of the security industry instead of having to come up with a response by themselves.
One problem with this strategy is that 75% of the people that started to work on a standard response only did so after facing a cyber attack. This kind of reactive strategy can be harmful because it wouldn’t prevent major attacks, and the losses incurred by these attacks would reduce the efficacy of future security protocols. It is essential for the security industry to start preempting attacks and predicting how and when they might occur, because resting on their laurels is putting them at risk as well as average users.
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Perhaps the most commonly faced form of cyber attack is ransomware, with 79% of the 1,200 IT security experts surveyed in the report saying they encountered attacks of that variety. With all of that having been said and now out of the way, it is important to note that 35% of the ransomware attacks that were seen resulted in professionals losing valuable data and access to their systems, which indicates that many security experts don’t know how to keep these attacks at bay and might fail to prevent them in the coming year.
In spite of the fact that this is the case, around 84% of the people involved in this survey said that they have started to develop a standardized response for ransomware attacks. Creating a formal playbook for responses is useful because of the fact that this is the sort of thing that could potentially end up helping professionals figure out the best practice at a glance by relying on the combined resources of the security industry instead of having to come up with a response by themselves.
One problem with this strategy is that 75% of the people that started to work on a standard response only did so after facing a cyber attack. This kind of reactive strategy can be harmful because it wouldn’t prevent major attacks, and the losses incurred by these attacks would reduce the efficacy of future security protocols. It is essential for the security industry to start preempting attacks and predicting how and when they might occur, because resting on their laurels is putting them at risk as well as average users.
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