Security News > 2024 > April > 51% of enterprises experienced a breach despite large security stacks

Threat actors are continuing to successfully breach across the entire attack surface and the stakes are only getting higher: 93% of enterprises who admitted a breach reported unplanned downtime, data exposure, or financial loss as a result, according to Pentera.

Enterprises are continuing to prioritize pentesting as part of their security tool kit, accounting for an average of $164,400, nearly 13% of their total IT security budgets.

The main drivers and uses for pentesting programs continue to be validating security controls' efficacy, understanding potential attack impact and prioritizing security investments.

60% of enterprises report a weekly minimum of 500 security events that require remediation.

On average, enterprises already have 53 security solutions in use across their organization despite large security stacks, 51% of enterprises reported a breach over the past 24 months.

"The results of our latest report are indicative of the increasing infrastructure complexity of organizations today and the rising challenges that security teams face along with it. Close to a third of CISOs who cited a breach reported financial loss and data exposure, while 43% reported unplanned downtime as a result of the breach," said Jason Mar-Tang, Field CISO at Pentera.

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