Almost all IT professionals believe that threatening intelligence services and feeds will help their companies prepare and resist malware attacks. Only 6% somewhat disagree with this notion, while 94% agree (44% strongly agree and 50% somewhat agree) that such tools are useful. Zero percent strongly disagree.
This is a passage taken from the June 1 report from Dark Reading, “The State of Malware Threats.” Dark Reading surveyed 153 IT and security professionals across industries including healthcare, financial services, information technology, manufacturing, telecommunications and retail. The goal of the report is to get out of the malware landscape, see how it is affecting companies, and discover what security teams are doing to fight it.
The Threat Intelligence Service and the Threat Intelligence Feed distribute information such as IP addresses and URLs related to known threats. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation’s infrared is probably the most prominent, but many private companies provide information. Feed for free As well as the offer they made. Feeds are useful for incorporating security information and event management (SIEM) and other tools to keep you up-to-date about recent threats. Threatened intelligence service Will include data for a client so that they can take action with different levels of protective activity from the service.
Other questions have achieved the same level of agreement between the respondents. For example, 86% either strongly (38%) or somewhat (48%) agree that they will see an artificial intelligence-driven attack next year; 13% disagree somewhat, and 1% strongly agree. Concerns about the malicious use of Dipfex were slightly more divided, with 79% agreeing (26% strongly, 53% somewhat) and 21% disagreeing (17% somewhat, 4% strongly).
Attitudes among respondents ’peers have further divided. The statement considers that discovering a new vulnerability will change their security team’s plan for the week, with 73% agreeing (24% firmly, 48% somewhat), but 28% (23% somewhat, 5% firmly) disagree. These disagreements may come down to confidence in their organization’s plan to manage a crisis rather than a lack of urgency.
The only statement that caused more controversy than the deal is that the company is less concerned about malware than it was last year. Only 44% agree (15% strongly agree, 29% agree slightly), and 56% disagree (39% somewhat, 17% strongly). Again, those who have agreed may be expressing confidence in the new tools and strategies that their organization has set up after a rough 2021. After all, the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) 2022 found that 40% of data breaches were malware, so no one could really rest easy.
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