76% Indian businesses hit by cyberattacks

Sophos a global leader in network and endpoint security, today announced the findings of its global survey, 7 Uncomfortable Truths of Endpoint Security, which reveal the extent to which Indian businesses are at a risk of repeated cyberattacks and are vulnerable to exploits. It also reveals that IT managers are more likely to catch cybercriminals on their organization’s servers and networks than anywhere else. In fact, IT managers discovered 39 percent of their most significant cyberattacks on their organization’s servers and 34.5 percent on its networks. Only 7.9 percent were discovered on endpoints and 18.8 percent, which is almost double the global average, were found on mobile devices. The survey polled more than 3,100 IT decision makers from mid-sized businesses in 12 countries including the US, Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, UK, France, Germany, Australia, Japan, India, and South Africa.