A Tripwire study which assessed cyber security challenges faced by organizations in the energy sector that included responses from over 150 IT professionals in energy, utilities, and oil and gas, found that two-thirds of the respondents (sixty-eight percent) said the rate of successful cyber attacks had increased by over twenty percent in the last month.
Some additional findings from the study include:
•Energy executives were more than twice as likely to believe their organization detected every cyber attack (forty-three percent) than nonexecutives (seventeen percent).
•In the last 12 months, seventy-eight percent of the respondents said they experienced a cyber attack from an external source, and thirty percent have seen an attack from an inside employee.
•Forty-four percent of the respondents indicated they have not gathered enough information to identify the sources of cyber attacks on their organizations.
•Nearly one-fourth (twenty-two percent) of the respondents admitted their organizations do not have business processes to identify sensitive and confidential information.
PORTLAND, Ore: Tripwire, Inc. has announced the results of a study conducted for Tripwire by Dimensional Research. The study, which was carried out in November 2015, assessed cyber security challenges faced by organizations in the energy sector. Study respondents included over 150 IT professionals in the energy, utilities, and oil and gas industries.
- Jan Wiedrick-Kozlowski
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