During the past two years, the vast majority of United Arab Emirates-based businesses have experienced a cybersecurity incident.
According to research from Kaspersky, 87% of companies in UAE have faced different forms of cyber incidents in the past two years.
25% of those cybersecurity incidents were caused by the malicious actions of their staff.
Kaspersky claims a number of factors enable people to perform malicious behavior against their employers, such as understanding their company's IT and cybersecurity infrastructure, having access to the company network, and using knowledge of their colleagues for launching social engineering attacks.
A previous Kaspersky study, released in December 2023, shows that 77% of APAC companies don't possess the tools required for spotting cyberattacks.
87% of firms are plagued by a shortage of cybersecurity talent, making it harder to stop cyber criminals in their tracks.
In the past, security leaders in the UAE have struggled to ensure secure access to remote employee and corporate-owned devices, said Mohammed Al-Moneer, regional senior director for META at Infoblox.
In Infoblox's report, only 15% of respondents in the UAE believe their organization is prepared to defend their organization's networks against insider threats.
This Cyber News was published on www.darkreading.com. Publication date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 20:25:07 +0000