Kaspersky Lab and B2B International have presented a report highlighting that 82% of companies have implemented anti-malware protection across the globe, while 80% use anti-spam technologies. However, given that cybercriminals are using increasingly sophisticated techniques to steal information, additional protection tools are necessary.
Kaspersky Lab experts detect an average of 200,000 new malicious programs every day, and 72%of all email messages are spam. This means that solutions offering protection against these threats are essential, and it comes as no surprise that over 80% of companies have adopted them.
In 2012, large companies faced attempts to conduct targeted attacks on their IT infrastructure. In such attacks, highly skilled cybercriminals use all the methods available, including social-engineering techniques and exploits targeting as yet unknown (zero-day) vulnerabilities.
Traditional antivirus technologies are not designed to provide protection against complex malware and, hence, targeted attacks. The required level of security can be achieved only by using additional protection technologies (encryption, Automatic Exploit Prevention, System Watcher, Script Emulator, etc) and by restricting activities that are not directly related to the employee’s work (control of access to the corporate network, devices, applications and the Internet).
However, the findings of the study reveal that only 43% use systems that detect attacks on IT infrastructure (IPS/IDS), while 15% are not aware that such systems exist or are not interested in using them.
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