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More than 100 business representatives from various industries participated in the survey.
Every fourth Russian company in 2023 faced serious cyber attacks, writes Forbes with reference to a study by MTS Red. About 17% of respondents reported targeted attacks targeting their business directly, while 8% reported attacks through contractors. The most common types of threats were phishing, social engineering (45%) and DDoS attacks (40%).
More than 100 representatives of Russian companies from the financial sector, industry and energy, IT, public sector, telecommunications, healthcare, retail, HoReCa, construction and development took part in the survey.
According to MTS RED, last year the number of information security incidents increased by 43% compared to the previous year and exceeded 50,000. At the same time, only about 25% (12,000) of them posed a serious threat to business, in contrast to 40-45% a year earlier.
Sergey Orlyak, head of the third line of MTS RED analysts, notes that phishing and DDoS attacks are popular because of their relative cheapness and ease of implementation. However, phishing is often used as the first stage of more complex multi-stage attacks to hack into employees accounts or infect their workstations.
62% of respondents pointed to the lack of qualified personnel in the field of information security as the main problem. Another 32% referred to the lack of time for existing specialists to solve the existing volume of tasks. Thus, the personnel shortage remains a key challenge for the industry.
The second serious problem is the consequences of the departure of Western developers of cybersecurity tools. 24% of respondents are experiencing difficulties due to the lack of high-quality domestic solutions, and 17% cannot renew licenses and technical support from foreign vendors. The issue of purchasing hardware is no longer so relevant - only 8% of respondents mentioned it. Only 14% of companies are concerned about the lack of an information security budget.
According to a joint study by Yandex Cloud and Business Solutions and Technologies, more than half of Russian enterprises increased their cybersecurity budgets by an average of 20% in 2023, investing in new software solutions and licenses. Companies have also become more likely to use machine learning technologies to protect themselves from hackers and cloud services to ensure data privacy.
Meanwhile, the authorities intend to toughen penalties for businesses for personal data leaks. In January 2024, the State Duma in the first reading adopted amendments introducing minimum fines for companies from 3 to 5 million rubles, and in case of repeated violations - turnover fines of up to 3% of annual revenue, but not less than 15 million rubles.
Every fourth Russian company in 2023 faced serious cyber attacks, writes Forbes with reference to a study by MTS Red. About 17% of respondents reported targeted attacks targeting their business directly, while 8% reported attacks through contractors. The most common types of threats were phishing, social engineering (45%) and DDoS attacks (40%).
More than 100 representatives of Russian companies from the financial sector, industry and energy, IT, public sector, telecommunications, healthcare, retail, HoReCa, construction and development took part in the survey.
According to MTS RED, last year the number of information security incidents increased by 43% compared to the previous year and exceeded 50,000. At the same time, only about 25% (12,000) of them posed a serious threat to business, in contrast to 40-45% a year earlier.
Sergey Orlyak, head of the third line of MTS RED analysts, notes that phishing and DDoS attacks are popular because of their relative cheapness and ease of implementation. However, phishing is often used as the first stage of more complex multi-stage attacks to hack into employees accounts or infect their workstations.
62% of respondents pointed to the lack of qualified personnel in the field of information security as the main problem. Another 32% referred to the lack of time for existing specialists to solve the existing volume of tasks. Thus, the personnel shortage remains a key challenge for the industry.
The second serious problem is the consequences of the departure of Western developers of cybersecurity tools. 24% of respondents are experiencing difficulties due to the lack of high-quality domestic solutions, and 17% cannot renew licenses and technical support from foreign vendors. The issue of purchasing hardware is no longer so relevant - only 8% of respondents mentioned it. Only 14% of companies are concerned about the lack of an information security budget.
According to a joint study by Yandex Cloud and Business Solutions and Technologies, more than half of Russian enterprises increased their cybersecurity budgets by an average of 20% in 2023, investing in new software solutions and licenses. Companies have also become more likely to use machine learning technologies to protect themselves from hackers and cloud services to ensure data privacy.
Meanwhile, the authorities intend to toughen penalties for businesses for personal data leaks. In January 2024, the State Duma in the first reading adopted amendments introducing minimum fines for companies from 3 to 5 million rubles, and in case of repeated violations - turnover fines of up to 3% of annual revenue, but not less than 15 million rubles.
