Malware detections higher on Monday mornings

BANGALORE, INDIA: New research published earlier this week in the annual NTT 2015 Global Threat Intelligence Report shows a massive increase in malware detections on Monday mornings when users reconnect their devices to the corporate network.

This trend supports the contention that the security perimeter in organisations is dissolving. This is because end users increasingly use their devices both inside and outside the corporate security perimeter. In fact, the user is today’s new organisation perimeter. What’s more, IT and security management can no longer count on well-defined network security perimeters to protect their organisations.

The Global Threat Intelligence Report contains analysis of over six billion security events worldwide gathered during 2014 by NTT Group companies including Dimension Data, Solutionary, NTT Com Security, NTT R&D, and NTT Innovation Institute (NTTi3).

Other highlights of the Global Threat Intelligence Report include:

· Finance continues to represent the number one targeted sector with 18% of all detected attacks.

· Across the world, an astounding 56% of attacks against the NTT global client base originated from IP addresses within the United States. This does not necessarily mean that the attackers reside in the US.

· 76% of identified vulnerabilities throughout all systems in the enterprise were more than two years old, and almost 9% of them were over 10 years old.

· Of the vulnerabilities discovered across enterprises worldwide, 7 of the top 10 exposed vulnerabilities resided within user systems and not on servers.

· Threats against the end user are higher than ever, attacks show a clear and continuing shift towards success in compromising the end point.

· Attacks against Business & Professional Services increased from 9% to 15%.