External attackers can penetrate most local company networks

2021-12-28 05:00

In 93% of cases, external attackers can breach the organization's network perimeter and gain access to local network resources, and it takes an average of two days to penetrate the company's internal network.

During the assessment of protection against external attacks, Positive Technologies experts managed to breach the network perimeter in 93% of cases.

An attacker's path from external networks to target systems begins with breaching the network perimeter.

According to our research, on average, it takes two days to penetrate a company's internal network.

Credential compromise is the main way criminals can penetrate a corporate network, primarily because of simple passwords used, including for accounts used for system administration.

According to the study, most organizations have no segmentation of the network by business processes, and this allows attackers to develop several attack vectors simultaneously, and trigger several of a company's unacceptable events.

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