Thanks to the COVID-19 crisis, security professionals are more concerned than ever about potential breaches, according to a survey released by Black Hat this week.
Respondents – 273 top security professionals – registered record levels of concern about near-term compromises of their own IT environments, as well as US critical infrastructure. Ninety-four percent said they believe the COVID-19 crisis increases the cyberthreat to enterprise systems and data, according to the "2020 Black Hat Attendee Survey." Twenty-four percent said the increased threat is critical and imminent. Vulnerabilities in enterprise remote access systems that support home workers were the chief concern (57%). Increased phishing and social engineering threats also ranked highly (51%).
In addition, nearly 90 of respondents (87%) said they believe a successful cyberattack on US critical infrastructure will occur in the next two years, up from 77% in 2019 and 69% in 2018. Only 16% believe government and private industry are prepared to respond to such an attack, down from 21% in 2019.
Seventy percent of cybersecurity pros said they believe they will have to respond to a major security breach in their own organizations in the coming year, up from 59% in 2018. Thirteen percent of 2020 respondents said such a breach is a certainty. When asked whether they have sufficient security staff to defend their enterprises against current cyberthreats, 59% said no. When asked whether they had enough budget to defend their data against current threats, a majority (56%) also said no.
While breach concerns have been high for the past several years, COVID-19 has heightened them.
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