SIXTEEN per cent per cent of British businesses dropped their guard against cyber-attack last year, despite an increase in incidents, according to a new report from Kaspersky in association with freight transport insurer TT Club.
'Cyberattacks and data breaches can be highly injurious to any business in terms of damage to reputation, costs of remediation, lost business and other expenses,' said Kaspersky principal security researcher David Emm.
Cybercriminals have become ever more sophisticated at exploiting organisational silos, security gaps caused by remote working and the supply chain crisis, to undermine the safety and security of critical systems, said the report, according to the American Journal of Transportation.
'So much so that companies across the uk and Benelux reported a 30 per cent rise in the number of cyberattacks they faced during last year, compared to previous years,' said the report.
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) recently reported an unprecedented 777 incidents over the last 12 months, up from 723 the previous year, it said.
High-profile attacks, such as the SolarWinds attack in 2020, have demonstrated how threat actors can target a vast number of organisations by breaching a single link in a supply chain.
Kaspersky's report, entitled Supply Chain CyberSecurity, Potential Threats and Rising to the Challenge, found that both enterprises and small and medium size businesses are showing a worrying level of complacency when it comes to protecting the resilience of their supply chains.
'At TT Club we are constantly assessing the risk profile of the global supply chain and alerting the industry to our concerns, hence our support of this unique report,' said TT Club loss prevention chief Mike Yarwood.
'One should not underestimate cyber criminals. They are agile, focused and highly sophisticated, presenting a significant threat to businesses in the global supply chain,' Mr Yarwood said.
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'Cyberattacks and data breaches can be highly injurious to any business in terms of damage to reputation, costs of remediation, lost business and other expenses,' said Kaspersky principal security researcher David Emm.
Cybercriminals have become ever more sophisticated at exploiting organisational silos, security gaps caused by remote working and the supply chain crisis, to undermine the safety and security of critical systems, said the report, according to the American Journal of Transportation.
'So much so that companies across the uk and Benelux reported a 30 per cent rise in the number of cyberattacks they faced during last year, compared to previous years,' said the report.
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) recently reported an unprecedented 777 incidents over the last 12 months, up from 723 the previous year, it said.
High-profile attacks, such as the SolarWinds attack in 2020, have demonstrated how threat actors can target a vast number of organisations by breaching a single link in a supply chain.
Kaspersky's report, entitled Supply Chain CyberSecurity, Potential Threats and Rising to the Challenge, found that both enterprises and small and medium size businesses are showing a worrying level of complacency when it comes to protecting the resilience of their supply chains.
'At TT Club we are constantly assessing the risk profile of the global supply chain and alerting the industry to our concerns, hence our support of this unique report,' said TT Club loss prevention chief Mike Yarwood.
'One should not underestimate cyber criminals. They are agile, focused and highly sophisticated, presenting a significant threat to businesses in the global supply chain,' Mr Yarwood said.
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