"Attacks Using Encryption Are Successfully Breaching Many Organizations"

Vectra AI recently published a report titled "The Evolving Role of Network Detection and Response (NDR)." According to the report, 70 percent of organizations have been the victim of an attack that used encrypted traffic to avoid detection. Almost half (45 percent) revealed having fallen victim to such attacks multiple times. Sixty-six percent still lack visibility into all encrypted traffic, thus increasing their vulnerability to future encrypted attacks. According to the report, cybersecurity and networking professionals are struggling to keep up with rapidly increasing threat detection and response workloads, which prevents analysts from dealing with sophisticated threats. Forty-five percent of cybersecurity and networking professionals believe threat detection and response workloads have increased, with 40 percent citing more cloud resources and 36 percent citing more network devices. In addition, 37 percent believe threat sophistication has increased, making it difficult for analysts to detect legitimate attacks. Furthermore, the lag between exploitation and detection gives attackers a lot of time to breach a network, according to 69 percent of respondents, with 29 percent citing communication issues between the Security Operations Center (SOC) and other Information Technology (IT) teams. This article continues to discuss key findings from Vectra AI's report on changing role of NDR. 

Continuity Central reports "Attacks Using Encryption Are Successfully Breaching Many Organizations"