Radware, a provider of cybersecurity and application delivery solutions, has released its "Global Application and Network Security Report 2015-2016," which examines trends for 2015 and offers predictions for 2016.
Key findings from the report include:
- more than 90 percent of organizations reported experiencing attacks in 2015;
- attacks are becoming completely automated and more sophisticated. Techniques such as burst attacks, advanced persistent denial of service, increase in volumetric pipe attacks, and dynamic IP attacks are making it difficult to defend the enterprise with manual solutions; and
- while more than 60 percent of respondents are extremely or very well protected against unauthorized access and worm and virus damage, the same proportion were somewhat or not very prepared against advanced persistent threats and information theft.
Radware also presented recommendations to anticipate and mitigate attacks:
- it is no longer realistic to believe that humans can deploy detection technologies and choreograph threat responses in real time. Rather, it has become necessary to fight automated threats with automation technology; and
- enterprises must understand the likelihood and cause of attacks. Mitigation assumptions should move in lockstep with risk level.
The complete report is available free online, with registration.