76% Indian businesses hit by cyberattacks: Sophos’ EDR survey

Sophos, an endpoint security provider said that 76% of Indian businesses were hit by cyberattacks in the past year, the highest after Mexico and France. In its global survey, 7 Uncomfortable Truths of Endpoint Security, Sophos said that more than 18% threats discovered in India are on mobile devices, almost double than the global average, while only 7.9% were discovered on endpoints. 39% threats were discovered on the organisation’s servers and 34.5% on its networks.

“Server security stakes are at an all-time high with servers being used to store financial, employee, proprietary, and other sensitive data. Today, IT managers need to focus on protecting business-critical servers to stop cyber criminals from getting on to the network. They can’t ignore endpoints because most cyber attacks start there, yet a higher than expected amount of IT managers still can’t identify how threats are getting into the system and when.” said Sunil Sharma, managing director sales at Sophos India & SAARC.