10 reasons

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10 REASONS

YOUR CYBER SECURITY STRATEGY NEEDS A CHECKUP

1 Attacks are increasing. BY 2020,

3 IN 10 OF THE GLOBAL 2000: DIRECTLY COMPROMISED 1

TOP REP ORTED THREATS :

68%

MALWARE 2

54%

PHISHING 2

43%

ADVANCED PERSISTENT THREATS2

2 The value of hacked data is growing. AVERAGE COMPANY LOSES

$158 PER COMPROMISED RECORD 3 $355

PER RECORD

HEALTHCARE

$100 MORE THAN IN 2013

$246

PER RECORD

EDUCATION

$221

PER RECORD

FINANCIAL

3 Attacks take weeks to discover. AVERAGE ATTACK TAKES 146 DAYS TO DETECT 4 MONTH

MONTH

MONTH

MONTH

MONTH

MONTH

MONTH

MONTH

MONTH

...AND 70 DAYS TO CONTAIN 3

4 Firewalls are not enough. ATTACKS THAT FIREWALLS CAN’T STOP:

PHIS HIN G

SQL INJ EC T ION

60%

OUT B OU N D DATA FLOW

48%

of breaches: misused login credentials5

IT professionals note increased vulnerability due to aging firewalls 6

5 Cyber security is an around the clock job. BUDGET COMPATIBILITY PRIORITIZATION EXPERTISE CERTIFICATION WORKLOAD

39%

32%

25%

24%

24%

STAFF

23%

22%

BARRIERS TO SECURITY UPGRADES 2

6 Your #1 security risk – your people.4 30% OF PHISHING MESSAGES

WERE OPENED BY THE TARGET

It took 1:40 to open the phishing email. Then took 3:45 to click the attachment.

ASSETS ARE LOST OVER 100x MORE FREQUENTLY THAN STOLEN

7 Bad guys are smarter than ever. 89% OF BREACHES ARE

FINANCIAL OR ESPIONAGE MOTIVE 5 Organized crime syndicates (89%) Political actors (9%) TOP THREE DATA TARGETS:

CREDENTIALS

TRADE SECRETS

BANKING DATA

8 IT is not ready.

79% have no comprehensive

62% lack tools and resources to

64% lack the tools and resources

68% lack tools and resources to

strategies to identify and mitigate attacks.7

analyze and understand attacks.7

they need for monitoring.7

mitigate external threats.7

77% pressured to launch IT

projects that weren’t security ready.8

9 You need enterprise-grade security without an enterprise-level build out.

79%

plan to use a Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP)8

MSSP

WHY A MSSP?

53% Cost efficiency2 46% Better incident response2

10 Not all cyber security teams are created equal. A DEDICATED INCIDENT RESPONSE TEAM DECREASED DATA BREACH COSTS BY $16 PER RECORD.2 Average security team = 29 people2

Rackspace team = 3000+ of the top experts security, infrastructure and applications experts in the world.

Learn more about Rackspace Managed Security services at www.rackspace.com/managed-security-services

SOURCES: 1

Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2015 (https://www.gartner.com/binaries/content/assets/events/keywords/security/sec16i/sec15_gartner_predicts_1.pdf)

2

Cisco 2016 Annual Security Report (http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/assets/offers/pdfs/cisco-asr-2016.pdf)

3

2016 Cost of Data Breach Study: Global Analysis, Ponemon Institute (http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?htmlfid=SEL03094WWEN)

4

M-Trends 2016, Mendicant Consulting (https://www.fireeye.com/current-threats/annual-threat-report/mtrends.html)

5

Verizon 2016 Data Breach Investigations Report (http://kinneygroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Verizon_DBIR_2016_Report-1-60426.pdf)

6

Secure Your Cloud Against Exposures: How Vulnerability Management Platforms Help, Forrester (https://go.alertlogic.com/rs/239-ZBX-439/images/AlertLogic_ForresterTAP.pdf)

7

Security Beyond the Traditional Perimeter Executive Summary, Ponemon Institute (http://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/30658/Ponemon_External_Threat_2016__ExecSumm.pdf)

8

2015 Security Pressures Report, Trustwave (https://www2.trustwave.com/rs/trustwave/images/Trustwave_2015SecurityPressuresReport-FINAL.pdf)