Arctic Wolf Security Operations Report Reveals Threat Landscape Intensifies, Almost Half of Security Incidents Occur After Hours
17 Septiembre 2024 - 5:00AM
Arctic Wolf®, a global leader in security
operations, today published its 2024 Security Operations Report,
which explores data and insights gathered from more than 250
trillion security events analyzed by the Arctic Wolf Platform over
the past year. The report provides actionable insights for security
leaders looking to leverage the security operations expertise of
one of the largest security operations centers (SOCs) in the world.
With a growing number of security tools and vendors, and record
high cybersecurity budgets, the frequency of cyber-attacks
continues to outpace these investments. Coupled with other
significant threats that organizations have faced over the past
year such as widescale IT outages, thousands of new critical
vulnerabilities, and the malicious efforts of nation-state actors,
many organizations find themselves struggling to manage their cyber
risk effectively. Based on real-world observations from more than
6,500 organizations, the 2024 Arctic Wolf Security Operations
Report provides an unrivaled deep-dive into the modern threat
landscape, arming organizations with the security operations best
practices they need to achieve better security outcomes.
Key findings from the report include:
- 24x7 Coverage is
key. Nearly half (45%) of security events now occur
outside traditional working hours, highlighting how the mass
adoption of cloud-based application requires organization to enable
24x7x365 security monitoring.
- The sprawl of security tools
overwhelms teams. Identity and access management (IAM)
tools have become the leading source of alerts of security
operations teams, with identity telemetry accounting for seven of
the top 10 indicators of compromise during security events
- Many industries remain under
a constant attack. Technology companies have the worst
average security posture of all industries examined, while
highly-regulated industries like Banking, Legal, and Healthcare
have the best overall security postures.
- Leading business
applications remain most targeted. Some of the most
commonly used critical business software from Microsoft accounted
for three of the top four applications most leveraged by attackers,
underscoring the prevalence of cyber risk and the importance for IT
and security teams to quickly identify and patch potentially
devastating vulnerabilities.
“Organizations that embrace security operations are more secure,
more resilient, and better able to adapt to the ever-evolving
threat landscape — but the reality is that very few organizations
have the expertise or resources to build such capabilities on their
own,” said Dan Schiappa, chief product and services officer at
Arctic Wolf. “The insights and recommendations in our Security
Operations Report will allow readers to not only understand the
challenges we collectively face as a cybersecurity industry – but
also consider practical steps on how organizations can advance
their security journey and fortify their defenses to better protect
themselves from the evolving tools and tactics used by modern
threat actors.”
For additional insights from Arctic Wolf’s Security Operations
Report, visit arcticwolf.com to download the full report.
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About Arctic Wolf:Arctic Wolf® is a global
leader in security operations, enabling customers to manage their
cyber risk in the face of modern cyber-attacks via a premier
cloud-native security operations platform. The Arctic Wolf Security
Operations Cloud ingests and analyzes more than 5.5 trillion
security events a week to help enable cyber defense at an
unprecedented capacity and scale, empowering customers of virtually
any size across a wide range of industries to feel confident in
their security posture, readiness, and long-term resilience. By
delivering automated threat protection, response, and remediation
capabilities, Arctic Wolf delivers world-class security operations
with the push of a button so customers can defend their greatest
assets at the speed of data.
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