Gartner in conjunction with the annual summit of information security, e-risk management currently being built in Dubai, Dell published a report refers to the growing cyber attacks that target small and medium-sized companies in the region, and the increasing intensity and ferocity.
The report pointed out that the media focus is on security breaches that affect institutions and large corporations, but most of today's security breaches affecting small and medium enterprises by as much as 70% of the total security breaches.
And adopt some attempts mail phishing directed to create an email address for employees and placebo in the organization and use it to request information about the company from other employees in the organization, and then the staff would not hesitate to send this information, believing that the source of the message is a Fellow of them in the organization.
There are cushions kind of cyber attacks known as (watering hole), and the hackers in this case the development of malicious software within the script code used in a widespread Internet sites on a large scale, and in the case of the one of the staff to open this site of the company's computer will be the entire corporate network vulnerable risk carried by malicious code.
The report showed that 91% of cyber attacks falls within the attempts to mail phishing directed targeting a small group of people working in one institution such as employees, as well as some phishing attempts mail is addressed to which they are sending the same message to hundreds or thousands of people in order to rhythm in any of them.
The report pointed out that cyber attacks on small and medium-sized companies belonging to three main factors, the first being the lack of small and medium-sized companies to be protected, as most of these companies do not apply appropriate standards to protect against cyber attacks, then the majority of these companies does not intend to increase their investment in security protection solutions Despite the increase in cyber attacks that target.
It cyber attacks on small and medium-sized companies factors increase in the number of malicious software, the Dell spotted during last year's 37 million malicious software, which is almost twice the amount of malware that was detected in 2013, and if this software amounted to a web Fbamkanha appended hurt all companies, whether large, medium or small, if you take into account the weakness of the available levels of protection in small and medium-sized companies, they will certainly be most affected by these attacks.
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