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Synack: Federal agencies and banks have made the most cybersecurity improvements
2020-09-24 12:05

Banks and federal government agencies are holding up the best against cyberattacks while retail and manufacturing are faltering, according to a new report from Synack.

The 2020 Trust Report from the penetration testing company found that government and financial services scored 15% and 11% higher than all other industries in 2020.

Government agencies earned the top spot due in part to reducing the time it takes to remediate vulnerabilities by 73%. The overall score for government agencies is 61 in the third annual report, up from 47 in 2019.

The report is based on Synack's Attacker Resistance Score, which measures a company's overall vulnerability to a cyberattack.

The data from the 2020 Trust Report comes from tests conducted on the Synack Crowdsourced Security Platform from 2019 through July 2020.


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