90 percent of organizations face attacks involving lateral movement

A new report from Illumio, based on a survey of over 1,100 IT and cybersecurity decision makers, finds that almost 90 percent of leaders have detected a security incident involving lateral movement within the past 12 months. Each incident involving lateral movement resulted in a global average of over seven hours of downtime. Alert fatigue, along with limited and fragmented visibility, especially across hybrid environments, are two of the top challenges to detecting lateral movement. Although 83 percent of organizations surveyed deploy multiple cloud detection and response (CDR) tools, nearly all (92 percent) report challenges with their current capabilities. Top… [Continue Reading]