COMPANIES SHOULD EXTEND EFFORTS TO FIGHT CYBERATTACKS

Organizations that oversee sensitive information remain woefully unprepared to fend off increasingly clever and sophisticated data raiders, according to a new study.

A report issued Tuesday by Silicon Valley security software firm FireEye Inc. Data breach victims took a median of 205 days – almost seven months – to realize they had had been hit, giving “attackers a free rein in breached environments far too long before being detected,” the report said, while “run-of-the-mill cyber criminals” out to steal credit-card data are becoming harder to distinguish from state-sponsored attackers due to advanced camouflaging tools and tactics.

Despite increasing awareness of cyberthreats and investments to protect sensitive data, including personal customer information and corporate secrets, corporations appear to be falling behind in their efforts to counter hackers. Many companies are better prepared for fires, floods and ice storms than data breaches, which “are more likely, and likelier to have a more significant business impact” than other emergencies, said John Proctor, vice-president of global cybersecurity with Montreal information technology services firm CGI Group Inc.

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At the same time, corporations increasingly realize there is little they can do to stop data raiders from penetrating their firewalls and getting past their anti-virus software. Leading cybersecurity providers are more focused on containing malicious software programs that have already entered corporate servers and constantly monitoring networks to prevent the invaders from uploading data to anonymous cybercriminals located around the world.

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