Business Disruption Becoming Main Attack Objective For More Adversaries

guest · Jan 28, 2020

Business Disruption Becoming Main Attack Objective For More Adversaries
January 27, 2020
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/345553

Over the last few decades, as more and more of the world has gone digital, there has been an obvious increase in the amount of cyber security threats as well. As is the case with most things connected to the internet, the chances of a system breach has kept getting higher as adversaries have found newer, better ways to carry out their nefarious tasks.

According to a report by US-based cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, 36 per cent of all incidents it investigated in 2019 had business disruption as their main objective. These attacks were largely caused by ransomware, destructive malware or Denial of Service (DoS) attacks.
Attack Impacts
While business disruption came right on top when it comes to attack impacts, data theft followed right behind. It was observed in 25 per cent of all breaches the company investigated. Data theft includes the theft of intellectual property (IP), personally identifiable information (PII) and personal health information (PHI).
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