Stefan Mileschin

If only there was a security credit card

CISOs face a rising 'security debt' to secure their organisations against an increasing volume of attacks by well-armed criminals, according to a new report from cybersecurity provider F-Secure in conjunction with Omnisperience.

The report said that despite going up against a criminal industry that enjoys advantages when it comes to speed and shared weaponry, CISOs and their teams report turning away increasing volume of attacks and preventing more of them from becoming breaches or compromises.

In addition to the lure of successful high-profile ransomware attacks, service and affiliate models make threat groups more effective. The sharing of tooling and offensive knowledge makes it easier to conduct more attacks against more targets.

An overwhelming percentage of the CISOs – 96 percent - acknowledge that they face a well-organised criminal industry motivated by financial gain. Furthermore, about seven out of 10 CISOs (72 percent) say adversaries are moving faster than they are, and a similar number (69 percent) say their adversaries have improved their attack capabilities in the last 12-18 months.

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