Hacking is Not that Hard ..
Hacking is Not that Hard ▫ More than 90% of successful breaches required only the most basic techniques. ▫ Only 3% of breaches were unavoidable without difficult or expensive actions. ▫ Outsiders with insiders help of or with gross negligence of insiders were responsible for most breaches. ▫ 85% of breaches took months to be discovered; the average time is five months. ▫ 96% of successful breaches could have been avoided if the victim had put in place simple or intermediate controls. ▫75% of attacks use publicly known vulnerabilities in commercial software that could be prevented by regular patching. ▫ One study found that antivirus software missed as much of 95% of malware in the first few days after its introduction. ▫ Another study found that 25% of malware is not detected by current techniques.