12/7/2023 0 Comments Technology landscape definitionRansomware demands - and payments - are on the rise. ![]() Ransomware criminals are multiplying, attracting new cyber talent, innovating malware, and acting with impunity. Ransomware is where CISOs and CIOs expect the biggest jump in reportable incidents - a prediction that has already been borne out within a month of our survey’s close. In the second half of 2021, 64% of our survey respondents expect reportable software supply chain attacks to increase while 66% predict a rise in reportable malware-via-software-update incidents. ![]() In late 2020, businesses became aware of an espionage campaign that successfully planted malware inside a software update months before activating the malware. Companies run on code developed in-house, taken from open source and/or bought from tech vendors - in an ecosystem that runs on trust. Software supply chain security is now getting CEO and board attention. How prepared were they for the incidents they experienced in the last 15 months? Only 55% or fewer of victims said they were “well prepared” to address the breaches - meaning 45% weren’t. At least half of organizations reported getting hit by malware via software update (54%), attacks on software supply chain (51%) and business email compromise (50%). Hackers lost no time exploiting the veritable explosion in attack vectors that came with increased connections, devices, applications and data. In PwC’s inaugural US Cloud Business Survey of 524 C-suite executives, 53% told us they aren’t getting the full value from the cloud.Īn important reason why: Companies don’t always take into account the unique security risks cloud adoption poses - or they don’t consider these risks early enough to reap the full benefits of cloud and avoid extra costs. But where are the DevSecOps? Are companies striking the right balance between speed to market, agility in operations, and security and privacy?Ĭloud security is another major concern - and by failing to address it, businesses are hurting themselves. Nineteen percent said their code goes out ten times faster.ĭevOps has clearly become more agile to support business needs. Fifty-seven percent of 4,300 developers and managers told the open DevOps platform GitLab that they’re releasing code twice as fast as ever before. Securing digitization has become a catch-up game, as the pace of development accelerates. Phishing accounts for the large majority of breaches via social engineering, with cloud-based email servers being a target of choice. Remote work has pushed the edge of the organization to common home devices that are not hardened to the same degree as corporate networks.Įmployees behind the keyboard can be unwitting participants to data breaches: 85% of breaches in 2020 involved a human element, according to Verizon’s 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report. Meanwhile, employees - especially those of the millennial generation (51%) and generation Z (45%) admit to using applications and programs on their work devices that their employer has expressly prohibited. ![]() Seventy percent of organizations relied on a password-centric authentication approach as of March 2020 - even with advances in biometrics, multi-factor authentication (MFA) and tokenization. Securing remote work is still in progress. Half or more of the CISOs and CIOs in our survey say they haven’t fully mitigated the risks associated with remote work (50%), digitization (53%) or cloud adoption (54%). As companies rushed to adapt to pandemic-inspired changes in work and business models, many seem to have left security behind.
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