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MOSCOW, Sep 6 The average damage inflicted on major Russian companies by hackers in the period from July 2022 to June 2023 increased by a third compared to the same previous period and amounted to less than 20 million rubles, not taking into account reputational losses, said the RTK Solar cybersecurity company.
“According to the results of a study conducted by RTK-Solar among 300 representatives of large businesses and the public sector, the average damage to companies from the actions of hackers for the year amounted to at least 20 million rubles (excluding reputational losses). This is a third higher than the figure for the previous similar period, and cyber incidents occur in organizations almost every month,» the report says and clarifies that the analysis was carried out for the period from July 2022 to June 2023.
Experts noted that such growth is provoked by the fact that tools for reconnaissance of the attack surface, with the help of which hackers detect entry points to the system, are actively distributed. Therefore, companies need to select a product depending on the requirements for functionality, load and fault tolerance. For example, small companies can start by using open source solutions that protect against web threats and provide access control.
«It is able to withstand light loads and cope with major threats, but it will become a critical point of the company's IT infrastructure with an increase in the number of employees and targeted attacks by intruders. Among other things, before using open source solutions, you need to conduct a full scan of their code for vulnerabilities. This will allow receive information about possible risks,» said Sergey Ananyev, network security analyst at RTK-Solar.
The materials specify that network attacks remain the most popular method of gaining access to computers, servers and network equipment of the victim for intruders. During the first half of 2023, the activity of miners in network traffic doubled, and the share of hacker attacks using SSL encryption to hide malicious activity increased by 53%.
According to experts, medium and large businesses will be more secure when using solutions of the UTM (multifunctional gateway that provides protection against network threats) and NGFW (firewall for deep traffic filtering) — they not only provide web security and access control, but allows you to protect yourself from network attacks using intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS), organizing secure access for remote employees.
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