INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Enterprise Security
DDoS attacks: More than half of enterprise
respondents reported a firewall failure as a
result of a DDoS attack, up from one-third
a year earlier. As stateful and inline devices,
firewalls add to the attack surface and are
prone to becoming the first victims of DDoS
attacks as their capacity to track connections
is exhausted. Because they are inline, they
can also add network latency.
Top 5 advanced threat trends
Focus on better response: 57 percent of
enterprises are looking to deploy solutions
to speed the incident response processes.
Among service providers, one-third reduced
the time taken to discover an Advanced
Persistent Threat (APT) in their network
to under one week, and 52% stated their
discovery to containment time has dropped
to under one month.
Better Planning: 2015 saw an increase in
the proportion of enterprise respondents
who had developed formal incident response
plans, and dedicated at least some resources
to respond to such incidents, up from around
two-thirds last year to 75% this year.
Insiders in focus: The proportion of
enterprise respondents seeing malicious
insiders is up to 17% this year (12%
last year). Nearly 40% of all enterprise
respondents still do not have tools deployed
to monitor BYOD devices on the network.
The proportion reporting security incidents
relating to BYOD doubled, to 13% from six
percent la