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Businesses face increasing challenge of targeted cyber attack: survey
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 04:44:36 -0500 (CDT)
http://security.cbronline.com/news/businesses-face-increasing-challenge-of-targeted-cyber-attack-survey-191012 By CBR Staff Writer 19 October 2012 Only 27% have heard about Stuxnet and 13% about DuquAbout 52% of IT specialists believe that enterprise networks will be increasingly targeted by hack attacks, posing serious challenge to IT administrators, according to a survey conducted by B2B International in July 2012.
One third of those surveyed believe that sooner or later their corporate network could face a targeted cyber-attack.
Targeted attacks would be the third most likely threat in the coming days, posing challenge before the IT specialists to defend their infrastructure - servers, workstations, corporate mobile devices.
Amidst reports of hackers using sophisticated malwares as cyber weapons, only 27% have heard about Stuxnet, and 13% - about Duqu.
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