Intrusion Prevention News and Errata
Security Teams Losing Ground Against Attackers?
This week the Ponemon Institute released a study of almost 600 IT security professionals who overwhelmingly reported an increase in advanced threats and a lack of proper security mechanisms to deal with them. A few important notes:
❯ “Advanced Threat” was defined as a threat requiring a methodology or a combination of techniques as opposed to just one.
❯ 71% of the participants reported an increase in advanced threats compared to the previous year.
❯ 80% believed that their IT management was unaware of the risk posed by these threats.
❯ 70% of threats were found to have evaded IPS and antivirus systems.
❯ IT overwhelming cited a lack of sufficient visibility and proper security technologies as the cause of missing the attacks.
