VMware Carbon Black's 2020 Cybersecurity Outlook Report has found that ransomware has seen a significant resurgence over the past year. The top industries targeted by ransomware over the past year have been: Energy and Utilities, Government and Manufacturing, suggesting that ransomware’s resurgence has been a nefarious byproduct of geopolitical tension, it says.
Ransomware’s evolution has led to more sophisticated Command and Control (C2) mechanisms and infrastructure for attackers. Cyber criminals continue to leverage standard application protocols in network deployments to operate under the radar and blend in with standard business traffic. They are also deploying secondary C2 methods on sleep cycles, allowing them to wake up a new method of C2 upon discovery or prevention of their primary method.
IT and security teams appear to be aligned on goals (preventing breaches, efficiency, incident resolution) but 77.4% of survey respondents said IT and security currently have a negative relationship, according to our study conducted with Forrester Consulting. Over half (55%) of survey respondents said driving collaboration across IT and security teams should be the organization’s top priority over the next 12 months, according to the study.
Nearly half of both IT and security respondents reported being understaffed with security respondents noting their teams are currently 48% understaffed and IT teams are 26% understaffed.
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