There were over 57,000 hacker attacks on Italian companies (+ 157%) between July 2020 and June 2021. Of these, almost 16,000 evolved into security incidents, such as to affect the use of company assets, violate company or security regulations. law, cause the loss or dissemination of data: an increase of + 225% in one year. This is what emerges from the Yarix Report, Var Group’s cybersecurity division, which monitored the exposure of Italian companies to cybercrime attacks in the period July 2020-June 2021.
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On the other hand, about 1,130 critical events with an increase of + 280% compared to last year: these are, explains the report, extremely serious offensives in terms of risk and impacts on the organization’s digital infrastructure capable of causing a real emergency for the company and require Emergency Response interventions to restore the systems to normal, implement the necessary preventive countermeasures and perform a subsequent post-accident analysis to detect the origin of the compromise or attack.
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Among the most affected sectors are manufacturing and fashion (28% of attacks), followed by that relating to Information Technology and Banking and Finance, respectively at 12% and 10%. The increase recorded by the Health sector, which stood at 9%, was particularly significant.
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