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Candy bar security posture leaves enterprises soft on the inside

Posted on April 14, 2018April 14, 2018 By Davey Winder

71 percent of hackers say they can breach perimeter of a target within 10 hours, and 100 percent within 15…

The latest ‘Black Report’ from Nuix has been published, surveying hacker method and motivation. Delving beyond respondent profiles and hacker tales, you arrive at the section of the report entitled ‘Attacks and Targets’ which is where some of the more interesting statistics can be found. Across all industries, 71 percent of respondents believed they could breach the target perimeter within 10 hours which rises to 100 percent given 15 hours. The candy bar nature of organisational security posture, where things are crunchy on the outside but much chewier in the middle, is exposed by some 54 percent of respondents saying they could locate target data within five hours.

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