Attack traffic up 32 percent in 2018

Levels of attack traffic observed by F-Secure's network of decoy honeypots in 2018 increased by 32 percent over the previous year, and increased fourfold in the latter half of 2018 compared with the first half of the year. The report suggests that many companies may not have the visibility they need to catch attacks that make it past preventative measures like firewalls and endpoint protection. F-Secure's survey finds that 22 percent of companies didn't detect a single attack over a 12-month period. 20 percent of respondents detected just a single attack during that time frame, and 31 percent detected between… [Continue Reading]