Global attacker median dwell time continues to fall

2024-04-24 11:00

While the use of zero-day exploits is on the rise, Mandiant's M-Trends 2024 report reveals a significant improvement in global cybersecurity posture: the global median dwell time - the time attackers remain undetected within a target environment - has reached its lowest point in over a decade.

In 2023, organizations detected intrusions within a median of 10 days, a notable decrease from 16 days in 2022.

These two trends - shorter dwell times and more internally detected events - suggest that defenders globally have improved detection capabilities.

Organizations in the Asia-Pacific region experienced the most dramatic decrease, reducing their median dwell time to 9 days, compared to 33 days in 2022.

Conversely, the EMEA region saw a slight rise in dwell time, increasing from 20 days to 22 days.

As cloud adoption grows, so does attacker targeting of these environments, including hybrid cloud/on-premise configurations.

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