Organizations suffer breaches despite confidence in their security measures

According to a new survey, 85 percent of respondents are either very or somewhat confident in their organization's security program, yet 41 percent say their company has experienced a security breach and 20 percent more are unsure. The study from big data specialist Syncsort finds the most common type of breaches are virus/malware attacks (76 percent) and phishing (72 percent). Interestingly, virus attacks came from internal sources roughly half the time while phishing usually came from external sources (78 percent). On a positive note, 50 percent of breaches were identified in less than a day, while 26 percent were identified… [Continue Reading]