Security News > 2021 > August > 50% of cybersecurity attacks are from repeat offenders

The survey queried almost 1800 cybersecurity leaders and practitioners about their views specifically on external threat hunting and the people involved in this emerging and increasingly necessary technique organizations are adopting to build their defensive capabilities.

In the new findings, half of the attacks on organizations that caused severe business disruption were by repeat offenders - and 61% of those victims said they were unable to remediate these compromises, leaving critical systems and data at risk.

Threat hunting, particularly external threat hunting, has empowered more sophisticated security organizations to identify and block impending attacks, augment threat detection, and achieve comprehensive remediation.

Only 24% defined threat hunting as looking outside their enterprise borders to monitor adversaries and identify impending attacks.

Most viewed threat hunting as a reactive method of internal threat detection, looking for malicious activity that has already taken hold.

Sixty-one percent acknowledged that threat intelligence could not keep up with the changes in how threat actors attack their organizations.

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