According to Verizon Communications? Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), in 2013, organisations worldwide will face data security breaches like authentication attacks and failures, continued espionage and ?hacktivism? attacks, web application exploits and social engineering.
The DBIR report identifies following data threats affecting enterprises in the year 2013:
?Topping the list – About 90 per cent of threats to data security originate from failure to authenticate usernames and passwords. Enterprises need to make sure that they have a sound process for creating, managing and monitoring user accounts and credentials for all their systems, devices and networks.
?Social Engineering – It targets people rather than machines and relies on social tactics like phishing to source personal information of users and the organisations. Higher vigilance and awareness among the employees could help address such threats.
?Hacktivism – Enterprises should be watchful of ?hacktivism? wherein politically or socially motivated attackers break into a computer system to access important information.
?Unencrypted mobile devices – The number of lost and stolen and unencrypted mobile devices will continue to far exceed incidents of hacks and malware. Increasing popularity of services like mobile payments by consumers will further increase their vulnerability to such attacks.
