With security threats constantly evolving, businesses need do a better job planning for and reacting to breaches, according to a cyber security report released today by AT&T.
For businesses, cyber security attacks are almost inevitable, according to AT&T's latest report, "The CEO's Guide to Cyberbreach Response," which can be accessed here. Last year, 62% of organizations reported security breaches, with 42% of those organizations saying those attacks had a negative impact on their businesses.
Yet 66% of organizations had no effective incident response plan in place, according to Jason Porter, security solutions VP for AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T). He explains the issue in this blog.
In his blog, Porter wrote that businesses need to be aware that every person who has access to a network could cause a security breach, and they should plan accordingly.
"Every single day we see around 30 billion malicious scans -- where attackers are probing for vulnerabilities -- and 400 million spam messages on our global IP network," Porter wrote. "In fact, we block 5 billion malicious scans and 200,000 malware events that are targeted specifically to us every day."
Over the past year, security breaches caused major enterprises an average of 23 hours of down time while midsized businesses experienced an average of 14 hours of downtime. Even one or two hours of operational downtime can lead to losses totaling in the millions for some companies.
AT&T's report arms CEOs with the details on what they need to do before, during and after their companies are exposed to a cyberattack.
— Mike Robuck, Editor, Telco Transformation