As incidents of cyber attacks continue to soar, the confidence of businesses in their ability to stave off such threats is falling. The Cyberthreat Defense Report from CyberEdge Group found that even though firms are spending more on their cybersecurity most respondents expect to suffer a breach within the next 12 months. Many of the businesses polled were no stranger to the danger; 71 per cent had been targeted in the previous 12 months and 22 per cent had been hit multiple times. Although the threats are rising firms are doing more to combat them and using analytics rather than purely defensive products. One of the big areas of caution though is in the use of portable devices: “A key takeaway from this year’s Cyberthreat Defense Report is the dramatic rise in mobile device threats,” said Kurt Roemer, chief security strategist at Citrix who are working with the report authors. “With workforce mobility skyrocketing, mobile device and application management technologies are critical for maintaining the confidentiality and integrity of sensitive data.”
