10 things you should know about cybersecurity

10 things you should know about cybersecurity

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  10 Things You Should Know About Cybersecurity
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  1 – Lackof Email Security Poses a Major Threat toMost Organizations Employees who are careless with their enterpriseemailaccounts areamong thebiggest threats to a given organization Photo:Sapience.net
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  2 – UnmanagedKeys and Certificates Lead to Cyberattacks Cybercriminals areincreasingly using unmanagedkeys andcertificates to sneak past encrypted network solutions. Photo:Appducate.com
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  3 – DDoSAttacks Cause Decreased Customer Trust, Revenues DDoS Impact Survey found that themost damaging aspect of a distributeddenial of service(DDoS) attack was loss ofcustomer trust, even moreso than monetary loss Photo:Hackernews.com
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  4 – IoTSecurity is Troubling for ManyConsumers, Enterprises 58 percent of1,000 US residents surveyed said they are very concerned about potential hacking and data theft of their Internet of Things (IoT) connected devices. Thirty-seven percent have already been breached,and 61 percent don't knowhow to properly secure their connected devices. Photo:Blog.Marvell.com
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  5 – AmericansFavor Encryption, But Don't Utilize It Out of 500 Americanssurveyed, 72 percent said they associated the word encryption with "security" while only 4 percent associated encryption with the word "threat." However, 68 percent of respondents said they had never used encryption or weren'tsure if they had ever utilized encryption. Photo:EPSfamily.com
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  6 – SharedCyber Threat Intelligence is Valuable, Yet Underutilized Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) sharing is deemed important to protecting criticalassets, only 42 percent of security professionals actively utilize shared threat intelligence. 54 percent of respondents said corporatepolicies prevented them from utilizing CTI in theworkplace. Photo:fastcompany.com
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  7 – Downtimefor SMBs Can Be Deadly 84 percent ofsmall andmidsize businesses would experience "moderateto catastrophiccosts and loss" dueto severaldays ofIT downtime. While it is important to implement effectivecybersecurity solutions, utilizing backupand disaster recovery solutions arealso critical to protect sensitivedata if and when your system is compromised. Photo:sharesinv.com
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  8 – EmployeeNegligence CanBe Just As Bad (Or Worse) Than Hackers IT professionals in theU.S. and U.K. were more likely to experience data loss dueto accidental deletion of information as opposedto data loss caused by cybercriminals. Photo:Innovativeos.com
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  9 – MoreMalicious Domains are Hosted in the U.S. Than Anywhere Else According to the study,theQ42015 Infoblox DNS Threat Index rose49 percent from Q42014 and increased five percent from the previous quarter, marking an overallquarterly and yearly increase in thenumber of newly created malicious domains. Photo: BusinessInsider.com
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  10 – SkillsShortage, Budgetary Restraints HarmFederal Security Efforts Cyber security skill shortagewas thetopbarrier to adoption ofbetter data security.Forty-three percent said budgetary restraintspreventedthem from adopting better data security solutions. Photo:Fortune.com