Webroot finds Most Enterprises Encountering Web-borne Assaults During 2012

Webroot the security vendor recently conducted a survey, which reveals that 8 in 10 business organizations encountered a minimum of one Web-related assault during 2012.

The survey found that organizations which let their staff surf on the Web without restriction suffered large numbers of malware attacks among which spyware, phishing, password hacks and keyloggers were included. These particular threats caused huge time consumption over the help-desk, lowered employee output along with interrupted business operations.

The survey, polling decision-takers regarding Web-security within UK and USA, discovered that a huge 79% of organizations suffered Web-borne assaults during 2012. The assaults still represent an enormous danger for popular corporate entities. Moreover, survey outcomes indicate that Web-security professionals nearly unanimously believe that their organizations endure a severe risk from malware during Web-browsing activities. Unfortunately, in spite of being wary of the dangers, merely a little over half (56%) of respondents stated they'd deployed safeguards for Web-browsing, while 50%-or-more of enterprises browsing sans web-security encountered online site compromises.

President and CEO Sara Radicati of Radicati Group said that it was important for every enterprise to prioritize safeguards against web-related malicious software as once malware made it into a network, its spread could disrupt the organization's entire operation. Therefore, a balance could be attained and was necessary between allowing staff to browse on the Web and making sure corporate data was safe via implementing a robust solution for Web-security so organizations could be spared of the otherwise costly burden, Radicati explained. Webroot.com published this, March 28, 2013.

Moreover, Chief Marketing Officer David Duncan at Webroot stated that knowing attacks were getting increasingly complicated the survey's results didn't invoke surprise. Securitybistro.com published this, March 29, 2013.

Duncan further stated that organizations required enforcing defenses in layers between any device's end-point and its PC-network. That would help in detecting the region under attack, and the time, besides whatever was happening overall. And with immediate assaults morphing continuously while also evading conventional detection systems, companies needed certain cloud-based module, which wasn't just efficacious within the new environment but also easily deployable, promptly responsive as also flexible enough towards tackling present days' advanced cyber-attacks, Duncan concluded.

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