FireEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: FEYE), the leader at stopping today's advanced cyberattacks, today announced the release of its annual Mandiant M-Trends® report. Compiled from advanced threat investigations conducted by Mandiant’s leading consultants in 2015, “M-Trends 2016” details the leading cyber trends and tactics threat actors used to compromise businesses and steal data.
“In 2015, we continued to be reminded that there is no such thing as perfect security,” said Kevin Mandia, SVP and President, FireEye. “Based on the significant number of incidents that Mandiant investigated in 2015, threat actors are finding inventive and disruptive ways to skirt even the best defenses, resulting in informational, financial and reputational loss.”
Some of the report’s key findings include:
A larger number of breaches were made public (both voluntarily and involuntarily) than at any other time in the past.
Mandiant’s investigations of attacks show that external identification takes longer, with an average of 319.5 days from compromise to discovery. Internal discovery takes an average of 56 days.
2015 saw the location and motives of cyberattackers become more diverse.
It was observed that a larger incidence of cyberattacks, both nationally sponsored and traditionally motivated financial attack groups, originated from Russia.
In light of the current cybersecurity scenario, more and more organizations are showing an interest in testing their cybersecurity capabilities through threat simulations designed to emulate real-world advanced attacks.
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