Information Security Surveys

To gain more insights into top detection trends, Attivo Networks® surveyed more than 450 cybersecurity professionals and executives globally to gain insights into detection trends, top threat concerns, attack surface concerns, and what’s on their 2019 security wish list. ...

What if defenders could see the future? If they knew an attack was coming, they could stop it, or at least mitigate its impact and help ensure what they need to protect most is safe. The fact is, defenders can see what’s on the horizon. Many clues are out there—and obvious. Download the Cisco 2018 Annual Cybersecurity Report here for more.  ...

Written by: Carolyn Crandall, Chief Deception Officer & CMO It was great to attend the NH-ISAC 2018 Spring Summit last week in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL as Grand Round Sponsors. This year’s conference was primarily focused on fostering and building relationships within the trusted healthcare and public health sector community through educational events aimed at advancing the global health sector’s cybersecurity approach. As a Grand Rounds Spo...

For nearly a decade, Cisco has published comprehensive cybersecurity reports that are designed to keep security teams and the businesses they support apprised of cyber threats and vulnerabilities—and informed about steps they can take to improve security and cyber-resiliency. In these reports, we strive to alert defenders to the increasing sophistication of threats and the techniques that adversaries use to compromise users, steal information, ...

Well here we are again, and it is time to take the annual journey into our collection of real-world data breaches and information security incidents from the prior year. We have published this report nine times and we truly appreciate you spending your valuable time with us, whether you have been with us since our humble, pie-chart-centric beginnings or if this is your first read. We would be remiss if we did not begin by acknowledging the organ...

April 12, 2017 - A majority of organizations reported that they were affected by a cybersecurity attack last year, with one in three saying that they had been hacked more than five times in the past 12 months, according to a recent Bitglass report. In response, 52 percent of respondents also said that their entity planned to increase their overall security budgets. Over 3,000 IT professionals were interviewed for the Bitglass Threats Below ...

The first three installments of the Cyberthreat Defense Report (CDR) began the process of looking beyond major breaches and the never-ending evolution of cyberthreats to better understand what IT security teams are doing to defense against them. Let's face it. We all know that ransomware ran rampant in 2016. More valuable to most IT security professionals than the intimate details of the next variant to emerge on the scene are the tactics and tec...

Attivo Networks®, today announced that a survey conducted by Anderson Research shows the portion of security budgets targeted for detection solutions increased substantially over 2015. According to those security professionals surveyed, their current budgets have shifted and are now split evenly between detection and prevention solutions. The report, sponsored by Attivo Networks, was conducted last quarter among security professionals from ove...

The aim of the study is to assess the economic impact of incidents that affect CIIs in EU, based on existing work done by different parties, and set the proper ground for the future work of ENISA in this area. In detail, our aim is to: Identify relevant studies in the field Define a proper methodology for reviewing the studies Extract relevant findings based on the proposed methodology Deliver the results in form of a systematic review....

Three quarters of consumers expect business and organisations to be hacked, a new study from cybersecurity firm Centrify reports. The Centrify Consumer Trust Survey interviewed 2400 consumers in the UK, US and Germany about issues such as their attitudes towards hacking, their likely actions when they discover a company has been breached, and how responsible they believe businesses are for these breaches. It found that 66% of US consumers a...

For the second consecutive year, Ponemon Institute's annual study on the state of security and privacy in health care found that cybercrime was the leading cause of data breaches among hospitals and other medical providers. According to the “Sixth Annual Benchmark Study on Privacy & Security of Healthcare Data,” 50 percent of surveyed health care providers named cybercriminal attacks as the root cause of a data breach they experienced ...

Research conducted by RSA has identified a phishing attack every minute with a total global cost of $4.5 billion losses in 2014. The US alone has seen an estimated $655 million in losses with 72% of the global phishing attack volume centered on the US. So what can organizations do to protect themselves from falling victim to social engineering attacks like phishing? Learn from breach cases like Partners Healthcare and Seton Healthcare Family, ...

Study shows security defenses drive down cyber crime losses In their 2015 Cost of Cyber Crime Study: Global, the Ponemon Institute performed 2128 interviews with IT, compliance and information security professionals in 252 companies in seven countries to assess the incidence and cost to the businesses of cyber crime....

Find out the specific security issues of the top and bottom schools and where they rank. ...

Almost two thirds of pharma companies have suffered serious data breaches while a quarter have been hacked, says a new survey....

Outdated software with vulnerabilities and practices that leave organizations open to threat remains common. To protect an organization one must methodically evaluate risks, threats, and vulnerabilities....

81 percent of hospitals and health insurance companies have had a data breach, according to a report released by KPMG...

Survey Conducted During BSides Conference at Black Hat Includes Responses from Senior Security Executives at Fortune 1000 Companies...

A new research report by Ponemon Institute finds that a comprehensive security training program with a continuous training methodology can improve the phishing email click rate an average of 64 percent....

Update on the Continuing Efforts to Protect Patient Data...

Growing Trend for Establishing Primary Security Function Outside of IT Reflects Need for Effective Security Governance....

The Risk Insurance Management Society (RIMS) recently published the results of its 2015 Cyber Survey....

Each year the American Hospital Association (AHA) assesses the state of health IT by conducting a survey of U.S hospitals. ...

Forty-three percent of mid-sized businesses say they have experienced a data breach in the past three years and 13 percent have had a supplier’s data breach impact their business information....

Aspen Institute, Intel Security Critical Infrastructure Survey Shows 86% of Respondents Want More Public-Private Cooperation; Of Those who Experienced Cyberattacks, 59% Reported Physical Damage...

Oh, Say Can You See?: A survey of 350 C-suite executives by cybersecurity analytics company RedSeal found while 60% of respondents said they could “beyond a reasonable doubt” assure their boards the company was secure, 86% said there were gaps in their ability to see and understand all that was happening inside their networks. ...

In the latest Duke University/CFO Magazine Global Business Outlook survey, finance executives expect wage hikes of more than 3 percent over the next year at U.S. companies, with full-time employment increasing by more than 2 percent. ...

Informatica and Ponemon Institute concluded their second annual survey on data centric security, titled “The State of Data Security Intelligence.” ...

Between 2010 and 2013, there were more than 900 data breaches of protected health information affecting at least 500 individuals, with most of them resulting from overt criminal activity, according to a study in the April 14 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). ...

Data breaches in healthcare are the most expensive to remediate and growing more so, according to a new report on data insecurity by the Ponemon Institute....

Every corner of the organization — from human resources to operations to marketing — is generating, acquiring, processing, storing and sharing more data every day. ...

Data breaches in healthcare are expected to increase in 2015 due to potential economic gain and digitization of records, according to Experian’s 2015 Second Annual Data Breach Industry Forecast....

Most common method of identifying them as advanced threats is a "gut feeling." ...

Many consumers say their problems started with banks and brick-and-mortar stores—not online retailers...

The healthcare industry is experiencing a surge in data breaches, security incidents, and criminal attacks—exposing millions of patients and their medical records—according to the latest Ponemon Institute study, sponsored by ID Experts®, the Fifth Annual Benchmark Study on Privacy & Security of Healthcare Data. R...

One-in-four Americans (25 percent) fell victim to information security breaches in the past year, according to a new survey from the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) conducted by Harris Poll. ...

54 percent of patients say they would be “very” or “moderately likely” to change providers after a security data breach impacting their personal health information, according to a recent survey conducted by Software Advice. ...

Security experts warn 2015 may be the year of the health care hack: In light of recent high-profile security breaches at medical organizations, they anticipate patient data theft will increase. ...

Patients are increasingly troubled about security breaches that involve personal health information, with 45 percent saying they were at least moderately concerned, prompting some to even withhold certain personal information from their doctors, according to a survey from Software Advice....

CIO.com's survey of IT executives reveals some forward movement, disconnects with business leaders and a puzzling take on security. Here are a few highlights, plus a link to download the State of the CIO report....