This folk hibernates through the winter. Attackers don't.
Right now, they rigorously evaluate different security tools, and prepare and pack different payloads. They are motivated, relentless and stealthy. Once a business is targeted, it's not getting off their radar until they get what they want -- corporate secrets and revenue.
Exploits, phishing, trojans, botnets, firewall intrusions, targeted attacks -- these are just some of the ways attackers can compromise your workflow, reputation and customers information.
Critical time and assets are lost to attack investigation, remediation and reporting. Artefacts are often obscured by attackers, which makes the full chain difficult to trace.
Businesses in the UK and around the globe are increasingly falling victim to cyber-crime. Conventional products, defences, and methods are failing. It's time to up the cyber-security game.
It's time to elevate security routines.
Still relying on signatures and wasting time with incomplete solutions, offering partial protection?
Great, malicious actors love that.
Why does my business need cyber security?
51% of organizations are planning to increase security investments as a result of a breach, including incident response (IR) planning and testing, employee training, and threat detection and response tools.
Source: IBM
Phishing is the single most common form of cyber crime. An estimated 3.4 billion emails a day are sent by cyber criminals, designed to look like they come from trusted senders. This is over a trillion phishing emails per year.
84% of organizations were the targets of at least one phishing attempt in 2022 - a 15% increase on the year before.
In 2022, APWG logged ~4.7 million phishing attacks. Since 2019, the number of phishing attacks has increased by more than 150% yearly.
Malware
- At 18%, malware is the most common type of cyberattack aimed at small businesses3. This is followed by phishing (17%), data breaches (16%), website hacking (15%), DDoS attacks (12%) and ransomware (10%)
- In 2022, 5.5 billion malware attacks were detected around the world, with the majority of these attacks occurring in the Asia-Pacific region.
Data breaches
- Nearly 1 billion emails were exposed in a single year, affecting 1 in 5 internet users.
- Data breaches cost businesses an average of $4.35 million in 2022.
- Around 236.1 million ransomware attacks occurred globally in the first half of 2022.
- 1 in 2 American internet users had their accounts breached in 2021.
- 39% of UK businesses reported suffering a cyber attack in 2022.