"Cyberattack Response Takes More than Two Working Days"

Researchers at Deep Instinct have found that organizations worldwide take on average more than two business days to respond to cyberattacks.  The finding was published in the company's second bi-annual Voice of SecOps Report, which was based on a survey of 1,500 senior cybersecurity professionals in 11 countries who work for businesses with more than 1,000 employees and annual revenue of more than  $500m.   The survey revealed the average global response time to a cyberattack to be 20.09 hours. Companies within the financial sector were faster to respond, taking on average 16 hours to react. The researchers also found that larger companies answered threats more quickly, clocking up an average response time of 15 hours. Smaller companies were slower at responding, taking an average of 25 hours to make their move. The researchers also discovered that only 1% of those surveyed believed that every single one of their endpoints was installed with at least one security agent. Just over a quarter (26%) cited "complexity" as the main thing impeding their ability to install more endpoint security agents. Other key concerns include the time it takes to investigate threats (39%) and a shortage of qualified SecOps staff (35%).  Nearly one-third of survey respondents believe that the biggest challenge regarding deploying endpoint agents is the cloud. Files stored in the cloud were an unchecked vulnerability for 80% of respondents, while 68% were worried that their colleagues would accidentally upload malicious files. 

Infosecurity reports: "Cyberattack Response Takes More than Two Working Days"