Companies fail to detect cyber attacks even as overall number of attacks increased in 2018: F-Secure Research

Pune: Even as cybersecurity data shows a significant increase in attack traffic in the second half of 2018, 14.5% Indian companies failed to detect any attacks during that time period, finds cybersecurity provider F-Secure. Attack traffic observed by F-Secure’s network of decoy honeypots in 2018 increased by 32% over the previous year and increased fourfold in the latter half of 2018 compared with the first half of the year. However, survey data showed that many companies may not have the visibility they need to catch attacks that make it past preventative measures like firewalls and endpoint protection. 22% of companies did not detect a single attack in a 12-month period, 20 % detected a single attack during that time frame, and 31% detected two-five attacks.