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Cyber Patrol
2016 saw approximately 82,000 cy-
ber incidents that negatively impacted
businesses and organizations around
the globe. It’s higher when accounting
for unreported incidents.
That’s the word from the Online
Trust Alliance (OTA) 9th annual
Cyber
Incident & Breach Response Guide
.
It shows that an average of 225 or-
ganizations were impacted worldwide
every day, more than 20 times the
rate of the consumer data breaches
reported for 2016.
According to OTA, cyber incidents
involve business interruption from
ransomware, stealing of funds via
business email compromise (BEC),
distributed denial of service attacks
(DDoS), and takeover of critical infra-
structure and physical systems. Ex-
amples include attacks on the Demo-
cratic National Committee and the
breaching of the World Anti-Doping
Agency database.
“The high-profile cyber incidents
of 2016 have taught us that finan-
cial loss is only one of many other
potential dangers of cybercrime,”
said Craig Spiezle, executive direc-
tor and president of OTA. “Organi-
zations are susceptible to security
threats, reputation damage and
much more.”
OTA also determined that more than
90 percent of all cyber incidents in 2016
could have been easily prevented.
While the mantra “cloud first” is becoming the “new normal” for many organiza-
tions, significant challenges remain for organizations making this shift – especially
those in regulated industries. Tops among the list of challenges, ranking right
above accessibility to data, security remains the top inhibitor to cloud adoption,
show surveys by 451 Research.
VIPRE’s mission is to make it eas-
ier for SMBs and partners to choose
and deploy next-generation endpoint
security with advanced machine learn-
ing. The company launched VIPRE
Advanced Security for Business, a
single solution that provides “top-rat-
ed” endpoint protection, anti-phishing
and email security, zero-day malware
and other threats, all for as low as
$12 per seat annually.
The solution includes everything
needed to ensure the safety and se-
curity of networks and data, according
to Usman Choudhary, chief product
officer for VIPRE. For SMBs with 250
employees, VIPRE Advanced Security
priced at $12 annually per seat com-
pares to $25 - $81 per seat/year for
competing solutions.
“Industry wide, there are too many
complex packaging and pricing options
that all too often turn into Trojan Horses
– sub-standard protection plans that are
ineffective and lead to costly, unfore-
seen upgrade cycles,” said Choudhary.
“So we are making it simple for SMBs.
We are offering them a single solution
that provides top-rated anti-malware so
they always have the highest level of
protection they need when they need it.”
Source: US Telecom; Well Fargo: Merrill Lynch data
Inhibitors to Cloud Computing
Source: 451 Research
Average Wired Pr
Average Wireless
2010
$1,515,000
$802,000
2015
$3.02
-67%
-82%
$0.02
$0.00
$4
$2
$0
Cloud T chnologies Offer Huge Cost Savings
Source: BCG
-47%
48%
23%
13%
16%
41%
25%
11%
23%
Today
Future
Network
IT infrastructure
IT software
IT labor
ANNUAL IT SPENDING OF A MEDIUM-SIZED RETAILER
Companies
typically
reinvest savings
in cloud usage/
new services
Security
Control of Data Locality, Sovereignty
Budget/Cost/Pricing
Technical Migration/Integration
Compliance/Regulation
Internal Resources/Expertise
Process Integration/Governance
Change Management
Vendor/Provider Issues
Other
7.4
6.9
6.9
6.4
6.3
6.3
6.1
5.8
5.5
3.9
Please rate how much of an impact the following will have on inhibiting your
organization’s use of cloud computing. Please use a 0-10 scale, where 0 is
‘No Impact’ and 10 is ‘Massive Impact.’ (Mean)
$0.01
Endpoint Protection
Starting at $1
2016: A Banner Year for Cybercrime
Security Concerns Still Impede
Cloud Adoption
Channel
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Overheard
“Any code has bugs—and that’s the
biggest problem. There are about
15-50 bugs for every 1,000 lines
of code,” he said. “If you take the
operating systems in today’s cars,
you’re looking at 100 million lines of
code for each car—which translates
into 1.5 to 5 million bugs.”
— Craig Smith, Research Director of
Transportation Security at Rapid7,
on why hackers always have an “in.”