A slew of high-profile attacks on core public sector systems have made the headlines and undermined the ability of the state to deliver vital services to citizens.
If we don’t quickly take bold action to address cybercrime, any present efforts to build a strong and resilient public sector could quickly and devastatingly come to nought.
Governments, organisations besieged by cyberattacks
The Covid-19 pandemic may be widely hailed as the greatest accelerator of digital transformation, but it has also rocket-fuel propelled the global cybercrime industry to unprecedented levels of activity.
As organisations and governments digitise core processes and introduce new digital channels for remote work, distance learning, e-commerce, customer service and more, threat actors have found a goldmine of opportunity to launch crippling attacks.
Mimecast research has laid bare the extent to which organisations and governments around the world are besieged by cyberattacks.
Internationally, 80% of organisations in the State of Ransomware Readiness report said they had been attacked by ransomware in the past two years. Larger enterprises — those with more than 5 000 employees — were the target of nearly 10 000 such attacks on average.
In its latest State of Email Security report, Mimecast found that 94% of South African companies have been targeted by an email-related phishing attack in the past year, with about two-thirds citing an increase in such attacks. The cost of ransomware attacks are also piling up, with three in five organisations (60%) citing damage from a ransomware attack — up from less than half (47%) in 2020. In addit ..
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