76% Indian businesses hit by cyberattacks: Sophos’ EDR survey

The Economic Times
March 13, 2019



Sophos, an endpoint security provider said that 76% of Indian businesses were hit by cyber attacks in the past year, the highest after Mexico and France. In its global survey, 7 Uncomfortable Truths of Endpoint Security, Sophos said that more than 18% threats discovered in India are on mobile devices, almost double than the global average, while only 7.9% were discovered on endpoints. 39% threats were discovered on the organisation’s servers and 34.5% on its networks. 



“Server security stakes are at an all-time high with servers being used to store financial, employee, proprietary, and other sensitive data. Today, IT managers need to focus on protecting business-critical servers to stop cyber criminals from getting on to the network. They can’t ignore endpoints because most cyber-attacks start there, yet a higher than expected amount of IT managers still can’t identify how threats are getting into the system and when.” said Sunil Sharma, managing director sales at Sophos India & SAARC. 


Fourteen percent of IT managers who were victim to one or more cyber attacks last year can’t pinpoint how the attackers gained entry, and 17% don’t know how long the threat was in the environment before it was detected, according to the survey, emphasising the need to have better endpoint detection and response capabilities. On average, Indian organizations that investigate one or more potential security incidents each month spend 48 days a year (four days a month) investigating them, according to the survey


The survey polled more than 3,100 IT decision makers from mid-sized businesses in 12 countries including the US, Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, UK, France, Germany, Australia, Japan, India, and South Africa. 



Other key findings include:

  • 92 percent Indian IT managers wish they had a stronger team in place to properly detect, investigate and respond to security incidents
  • 89 percent IT managers surveyed believe cyber security recruitment is a challenge. 
  • 97 percent IT managers admitted that security expertise is one of the greatest issues in India.
  • Three – fourth of Indian organisations admitted not being able to take full advantage of implemented EDR solutions. 
  • After Mexico and France, Indian businesses most hit by cyber attacks 



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