Cyberattacks Longer, More Continuous Than Before

By Jai Vijayan
 
A surprisingly large number of organizations experienced cyberattacks lasting more than one month, a new survey found.
 Companies hit with cyberattacks this year spent a longer time on average mitigating the threat than at any time previously, highlighting the growing sophistication and complexity of the threat landscape.
Some 19% of 340 technology executives surveyed by security vendor Radware Inc. earlier this year described attacks against their companies as “constant,” with about 15% saying the attacks lasted more than one month.
This marks the first time in the four years that Radware has done the survey where so many respondents reported experiencing month-long attacks. “This trend challenges the traditional concept of incident response, which assumes a normal state without attacks,” Radware said in its “Global Application & Network Security Report.”
Enterprises appeared more or less equally worried about a wide range of security threats, including phishing, fraud, IP theft, and worm and virus damage. Somewhat surprisingly though, distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) topped the list of threats that IT managers were most concerned about this year, followed by advanced persistent threats, according to the Radware survey.
 
 
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