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Cyber-attacks have been at the forefront of everyone’s mind lately, especially with the recent reports of Sony, Epsilon, Citigroup Inc, RSA, Barracuda Networks, the CIA, Central Intelligence Office and a multitude of others. A recent survey from Ponemon Research found that 90 percent of the 583 U.S. companies surveyed said that they’ve been hacked in the last year.
“Gartner claims that 70% of all vulnerabilities are at the Web application layer.” According to an article from Network World “the majority of attacks today, including the Sony PlayStation attack, involve some form of Web application vulnerability. But an application-related data breach is not just a one-time, isolated event. The actual breach is only one stage of the attack” thus, it is an absolute imperative today to protect your proprietary data from an onslaught of deleterious acts. InterGuard software offers a Data Loss Prevention (DLP) module that will keep your data from leaking out.
PC World reports: “Nearly 60% reported two or more breaches over the past year. More than 50% said they had little confidence of being able to stave off further attacks over the next 12 months.”
The New York Times reports: “60 percent of the respondents said they identified the source of the attack and perhaps not surprisingly, 34 percent were traced back to China and 19 percent to Russia.”
A couple quick facts from the report (pdf):
— The cost of an attack can be significant: “When asked to consider cash outlays, internal labor, overhead, revenue losses and other expenses related to the security breach, 41 percent of respondents report that it was $500,000 or more”
— “As a result of these multiple breaches, more than one-third (34 percent) of respondents say they have low confidence in the ability of their organization’s IT infrastructure to prevent a network security breach.