TRENDING

Recent research by Orange Cyberdefense has revealed an increase in the number of cyberattacks that have taken place this year , fuelled by a new working environment which has seen many organisations adopt to remote workforces . Haifa Jlassi , Orange Cyberdefense Security Expert for META at Orange Business Services , highlights how Orange Cyberdefense helps to protect customers in this increased remote workforce environment , as well as the support offered if the worst should happen .

Can you describe the current threat landscape ? What are the major threats that your customers are experiencing ?

It ’ s been a very challenging year where organisations across the globe have had to adapt their working processes to accommodate remote workers in a very short time . This has meant allowing remote access to assets , as well as moving to the cloud . With that , there has been an increase in the attack surface and many organisations have been victims to cyberattacks .

Looking at the Orange Cyberdefense Navigator , you can find some very interesting statistics . Our cyber analysts across the globe analysed something like 1,000,700 events last year and found that 41 % of those were confirmed incidents , proper attacks .

Across the regions , we saw an increase in social engineering – 5 % in 2020 compared to 1 % in 2019 . If we look at malware incidents , we ’ re talking about something like 13 %. These are both state-backed criminal hackers as well as small hackers .

The earlier we can detect and disrupt malware activity , the less likely it is to progress to a ransomware incident .

www . intelligentcio . com INTELLIGENTCIO MIDDLE EAST 25