Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 35 | Page 21

LATEST INTELLIGENCE increase during the 13 months ended February 2018. While spam is today less of a problem than it was several years ago, the one-year period that ended in March 2018 saw an overall increase in the volume of spam traversing the Internet, with enormous spikes occurring in early 2018. • Security teams must deal with all of these issues, in addition to the everyday problems of rootkits, bootkits, adware, overwriting viruses, bots, software bugs, keyloggers, password-stealing Trojans, backdoors, and dumb user mistakes. What concerns decision makers? What types of security threats could compromise an organisation’s data assets and, in some cases, even put it out of business? We discovered a wide range of security incidents that have occurred to survey respondents’ organisations over the past year, most notably successful phishing attacks that infected one or more systems with malware (28 % of organisations), targeted email attacks from a compromised account that had the same result (25 %) and the loss of sensitive or confidential information that was successfully leaked through email (25 %). n Download whitepapers free from www.intelligentcio.com/me/whitepapers/ www.intelligentcio.com INTELLIGENTCIO 21