2023 Cybersecurity Statistics - Check It Out!
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Yoooooooooo! Good day to my security super soldiers! 🤓 Here is to short outages, long weekends, and the best of intentions! 😂 Cyber Security month is in full swing and we want to share with you some interesting stats 📈 as we look forward to 2024. 🎉
2023 brought us some rather impressive hacks, the biggest of which (so far!) was a 10 minute ⏰ social engineering hack that relied on poor process for its execution...ouch! Let all have a drink 🍺 for our brothers and sisters at MGM shall we??!!
This being said, 2024 looks like more of the same...and with AI 🤖 now in the mix, the game hot gotten hot, hot, hot! 🔥
The link below is a pretty solid write up of on the "State of the Security" of the internet taking into account the past few years and projecting forward with some solid recommendations!
The big takeaways for me are:
1. Top cyber crime is <Drumroll please>......
Phishing...by more than 5x than the second place crime (Personal Data Breach)!!! Phishing is one of the vulnerabilities that's heavily influenced by process to be effective. You can have the best security software out there, but if your phishing training or email process is lacking...boom...you missed the biggest rock.
2. Passwords still tend to be an ongoing issue! Who would've thought it? In 2019, 80% of all compromised data was attributed to compromised passwords! 80% my people! Some simple procedural tweaks will allow you to ease that pain. Please start migrating to password less technologies or upgrade your password policies so that you are not weakened by poor management!
3. And the saddest realization is captured in this quote:
"As of 2023, 300,000 fresh malware instances are generated daily, 92% distributed through email, with an average of 49 days to be detected."
Average of 49 Days to be detected? 99.999999999999% of us are on either Microsoft or Google and we have the tools even with the basic toolset to protect us was better than 49 days!!! We really need to get back to the basics and set up old school reporting and actually monitor our landscapes. Lets use the reporting tools...make these systems work for us! We can do better than this! I have faith in us!
https://lnkd.in/gDSKzEhq.
2023 brought us some rather impressive hacks, the biggest of which (so far!) was a 10 minute ⏰ social engineering hack that relied on poor process for its execution...ouch! Let all have a drink 🍺 for our brothers and sisters at MGM shall we??!!
This being said, 2024 looks like more of the same...and with AI 🤖 now in the mix, the game hot gotten hot, hot, hot! 🔥
The link below is a pretty solid write up of on the "State of the Security" of the internet taking into account the past few years and projecting forward with some solid recommendations!
The big takeaways for me are:
1. Top cyber crime is <Drumroll please>......
Phishing...by more than 5x than the second place crime (Personal Data Breach)!!! Phishing is one of the vulnerabilities that's heavily influenced by process to be effective. You can have the best security software out there, but if your phishing training or email process is lacking...boom...you missed the biggest rock.
2. Passwords still tend to be an ongoing issue! Who would've thought it? In 2019, 80% of all compromised data was attributed to compromised passwords! 80% my people! Some simple procedural tweaks will allow you to ease that pain. Please start migrating to password less technologies or upgrade your password policies so that you are not weakened by poor management!
3. And the saddest realization is captured in this quote:
"As of 2023, 300,000 fresh malware instances are generated daily, 92% distributed through email, with an average of 49 days to be detected."
Average of 49 Days to be detected? 99.999999999999% of us are on either Microsoft or Google and we have the tools even with the basic toolset to protect us was better than 49 days!!! We really need to get back to the basics and set up old school reporting and actually monitor our landscapes. Lets use the reporting tools...make these systems work for us! We can do better than this! I have faith in us!
https://lnkd.in/gDSKzEhq.