Information Security Surveys

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...

Eighty-one percent of health care executives say that their organizations have been compromised by at least one malware, botnet, or other cyber-attack during the past two years,...

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....

The Association of Corporate Counsel has released its 2015 survey of Chief Legal Officers....

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. ...

A recent survey commissioned by the European Commission reveals that data protection remains an important concern for EU citizens....

The government is not typically an institution that inspires consumer confidence, and when it comes to protecting personal data, neither is the retail industry....

Cybersecurity was identified as an increased business priority over the past year according to 87 percent of respondents in the newly released 2015 HIMSS Cybersecurity Survey. ...

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....

According to new data from a global snapshot survey from SOTI Inc.,the world’s leading provider of Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy management,more than 60 percent of enterprises have experienced a data breach or loss of data....

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. ...

Chief information officers (CIOs) in the retail sector are under the gun to balance two strategic IT priorities in 2015 — security and digital innovation, according to a new survey by Forrester Research and the National Retail Federation....

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. ...