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Cyber ​​incidents – business risk number 1
Cyber ​​incidents remain the number 1 business risk - Image by Markus Winkler on Pixabay

Cyber ​​incidents will remain the largest business risk worldwide in 2024, according to the current Allianz Risk Barometer. This includes data breaches, but especially attacks on critical infrastructure or assets as well as ransomware attacks. The Allianz Risk Barometer puts business interruptions in second place in the survey in Germany. IT now forms the basis for almost all business processes. In the event of a compromise or disruption, all or many areas of the company are directly affected and business interruptions quickly result - which explains their place on the barometer. By classifying cyber risks as the largest business risk, risk assessment gains significant...

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Cybersecurity – danger from employees
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Incorrect behavior by employees was responsible for over a third of all German cyber incidents in the last two years. In 17 percent of cases, they acted with bad intentions and for their own good. Companies face different security risks; Employees are more often responsible for security incidents than hackers. These results come from a recent Kaspersky survey. In companies in Germany that experienced security incidents in the past two years, 37 percent were due to human error and 30 percent were due to protocol violations; Hackers only accounted for 27 percent...

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Cyber ​​incidents: 8 out of 10 companies have been victims
Cyber ​​incidents: 8 out of 10 companies have been victims

The study is frightening: in the last two years, 81% of German companies were affected by cyber incidents. More than half even twice. 58% of those affected therefore want to invest more in cybersecurity. According to the current Kaspersky study, more than three quarters (81 percent) of IT security experts complained about at least one IT security incident in the past two years, and 65 percent complained about at least two. Almost half (45 percent) of these were classified as “serious” and 16 percent as “very serious”. Reasons for cyber incidents According to IT security experts, among other things, a lack of necessary tools for...

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The proportion of serious cybersecurity incidents is increasing
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Serious security incidents have increased by half in the past year - from 9 percent in 2020 to 14 percent in 2021. This is shown by recent research based on the analysis of incidents reported by customers to Kaspersky Managed Detection and Response (MDR). based. Increasingly complex infrastructures, skill shortages, and increasing sophistication of attacks can impact the efficiency of cybersecurity teams and their ability to detect hostile activity before incidents occur. To gain insight into the current threat landscape, Kaspersky analyzed anonymized customer incidents reported through its…

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