“Enterprises throughout all industries face unprecedented challenges, together with an increasing assault floor, zero-day vulnerabilities, cloud misconfigurations and rising AI-enabled threats,” stated Andrei Florescu, president and normal supervisor, Bitdefender Business Solutions Group.
“Our latest survey outcomes spotlight a now-essential strategy to cybersecurity that layers menace prevention, safety, detection and response throughout all environments, together with cloud infrastructure, providers and provide chains. The purpose of efficient cybersecurity is not only to cease assaults on the level of entry, however to scale back threat, optimize sources (expertise and other people) and ease the burden on safety groups,” Florescu added.
When requested how a lot of a menace GenAI expertise is to general cybersecurity, a staggering 96% of respondents agreed that it’s a menace, with over 36% saying that its use to control and create misleading content material (deepfakes) is a major menace. Interestingly, confidence (or overconfidence) in recognizing deepfake-type assaults (audio/video) is excessive, with 74% believing their colleagues of their division are able to doing so.
Data breaches proceed to extend yr after yr
Fifty-seven p.c of organizations had skilled a knowledge breach or knowledge leak prior to now 12 months, up 6 proportion factors from the earlier yr when the identical query was requested. The UK had the very best proportion of respondents who had skilled a knowledge breach or knowledge leak at 73.5%, adopted by Germany at 61% and lowest in Singapore at 33% (24 proportion factors decrease than common).
64.3% of all respondents stated they are going to search for a brand new job within the subsequent 12 months, a major improve of 25% in comparison with final yr’s outcomes. This consequence correlates with 70.2% of respondents agreeing that they should work on weekends resulting from safety issues confronted by their firm. UK respondents had been most definitely to work on weekends at 81%, whereas German respondents had been most definitely to search for a brand new job at 76.6% (12.2% larger than common).
When requested what their greatest safety concern is with regards to managing their cloud environments, 38.7% cited IAM, carefully adopted by sustaining cloud compliance at 38%. Singaporean respondents had been considerably extra doubtless than common (50.5%) to say IAM is their greatest problem.
Shadow IT got here in third general at 36%, adopted by the danger of misconfiguration at 34%. Additionally, when requested how they monitor dangers throughout their cloud infrastructure, solely 44.6% of respondents stated they conduct common audits and assessments.
Phishing assaults have gotten extra refined
Among all respondents, the highest cybersecurity threats had been phishing/social engineering and software program vulnerabilities and/or zero-days, each at 32%, adopted by the influence of GenAI on cyber threats and ransomware (each at 29%) and insider threats (28%).
Over 74% of respondents say phishing assaults have gotten extra refined (which doubtless correlates with the surge in GenAI). Surprisingly, within the France, US and Germany areas, 35.5%, 34.3% and 32.8% respectively think about GenAI to be an even bigger menace than ransomware.
Respondents cited key causes for utilizing or contemplating managed detection and response (MDR) providers: Over a 3rd of respondents cited 24/7 safety protection as the highest motive, adopted by entry to high-level safety analysts and the flexibility to each proactively menace hunt at 29%.
When it involves managed providers, 93% of respondents plan to extend funding in proactive cybersecurity measures (penetration testing, pink teaming workouts, and so forth.), with 37% saying they’re very doubtless. Respondents in Singapore had been most definitely to put money into proactive cybersecurity at 97%.
When requested what the largest problem is with their group’s present safety answer, 28% of all respondents cited knowledge compliance and regulatory adherence as their high problem. Extending capabilities throughout a number of environments got here in an in depth second at 27.5%, adopted by incompatibility with different safety options at 25%. Among US respondents, 29% cited safety of third-party companions as their high concern, 5% above the typical.
The report is predicated on authentic analysis and evaluation of greater than 1,200 IT and safety professionals, from managers to CISOs, working in firms with greater than 1,000 staff worldwide.