As hackers go after business computer systems in search of data to steal, sell or hold for ransom, security teams are finding high- and low-tech solutions to block the attacks.
The latest “Verizon 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report” analyzed more than 32,0000 security incidents, the company said, of which 3,950 were confirmed breaches—almost double the number of breaches analyzed in last year’s report. Report co-author Suzanne Widup, senior information security professional at Verizon, saw a wide range of methods used to access computers—and noticed that as soon as security professionals learn how to block one kind of hack, criminals would try another.
