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Therefore, even running a quarterly penetration test means that between This equates to 154 new vulnerabilities a week, 660 a month or over 8,000 in the course of a year. Nopsec Labs reported in that in 2014, 22 new vulnerabilities were discovered every day. However, we all know that most organisation only undertake these annually or at best quarterly.

These are typically covered by penetration So where should an institution start to ensure that their cybersecurity is sound? The first area to consider is their external facing systems (websites, online portals) and network accesses (leased lines, routers etc.).

Increases to cost of insurance and debtĭeloitte suggests that the recovery time following a cyber-crime incident could be anywhere up to 5 years.

lost contract revenue and customer relationships.

Notifying customers of breach, increased regulatory oversight, litigation costs and the increased costs associated with retrospective technical improvements), the Deloitte report focuses on the “hidden” costs in the aftermath of a breach, particularly around

In addition to the widely accepted impacts of cyber-attacks (reputational damage, investigation costs, Last month ( Beneath the surface of a cyberattack). What steps should institutions take to protect themselves from vulnerabilities within their external and internal environments? If you need any persuading that the impact of data compromise is high, one only needs to look at the Deloitte report published Institutions must place their physical/virtual security at the top of the priority list before and not just after Institutions cannot claim lapses in concentration when they become the target of criminal attacks aimed at stealing personal and private data. However, whilst human error can be excused in some of these instances, The loss or theft of a laptop or storage device is almost always down to human error either a lapse of concentration or a moment of carelessness that leads to an opportunistic theft. I speak from personal experience here in the last 10 years I have been notified of 5 separate data breaches where my personal data has potentially been compromised, either through the misplacement/theft of devices to criminal events where institutions have Once again data breaches have made headlines globally, bringing significant negative publicity, impacting consumers who have had their data compromised and prompting the public to question just how safe their personal data is in the hands of others.