Just this year, some of the largest companies in the world have been repeatedly attacked by hackers
A third of organizations have experienced multiple cyberattacks this year, often resulting in customer data being compromised.
A new report from cybersecurity experts Trend Micro, claims that businesses are struggling to protect an increasingly larger attack surface.
Surveying more than 4,100 businesses across North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, the researchers concluded that the level of risk has increased significantly between the second half of 2021 and second half of 2022. The number of businesses expected to be successfully attacked increased from 84% to 90% compared to the first half of 2021, while the number of people expected to be compromised next year increased from 76% to 85%.
Complex IT environment
For Jon Clay, Vice President of Threat Intelligence at Trend Micro, working together is making it difficult for IT departments everywhere.
“You can’t protect what you can’t see. But with hybrid operations ushering in a new era of complex, distributed IT environments, many organizations are struggling to eliminate vulnerabilities. In order to avoid an out-of-control spiral attack surface, they need to combine asset detection and monitoring with threat detection and response on a single platform.”
One of the biggest risks, when it comes to preparing for a cyber attack, has to do with an organization’s ability to uncover its attack surface. Security professionals are having a hard time determining the physical location of business-critical data assets, as well as applications, the researchers said.
On the other hand, from a business perspective, the difference between CISOs and corporate executives is another major concern. In other words, attracting more cybersecurity professionals, as well as improving security processes and technologies, is the way forward, Trend Micro said.
Overall, the biggest threats today are business email compromise, clickjacking, fileless attacks, ransomware and malware (opens in a new tab)and steal credentials.
