Tenable Study Reveals 40% of Cyberattacks Breach Saudi Arabian Organisations’ Defences
December 5, 2023 · Dubai, UAE
“Security teams are so busy remediating cyberattacks that they don’t have time or resources- SAUDI ARABIAN ORGANISATIONS FACE A CYBER CONUNDRUM: Security teams recognise prevention is better than cure, but are too busy mitigating attacks to change tactics
to focus efforts on strengthening defences to deflect and protect against them.”
Tenable®, the Exposure Management company, today highlighted that, of the cyberattacks Saudi Arabian organisations experienced in the last two years, 40% were successful. Sicherheitsteams sind daher gezwungen, Arbeitszeit und Maßnahmen auf eine reaktive Eindämmung von Cyberangriffen zu fokussieren, anstatt diese schon im Vorfeld zu verhindern.With 68% of Saudi organisations confident that their cybersecurity practices are capable of successfully reducing the organisation’s risk exposure, there is work to be done. These findings are based on a commissioned survey of 50 Saudi-based cybersecurity and IT leaders conducted in 2023 by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Tenable.
Besonders besorgt zeigten sich die Befragten über Risiken in Zusammenhang mit Cloud-Infrastruktur, da dort die Korrelation von Nutzer- und Systemidentitäten, Zugang und Berechtigungsdaten äußerst komplex ist.Half of organisations (56%) say they use multi-cloud and/or hybrid cloud environments. However, over half of respondents (62%) cite cloud infrastructure as one of the highest areas of risk exposure in their organisation. In order, the highest perceived risks come from the use of public cloud infrastructure (28%), multi cloud and/or hybrid cloud (20%) and private cloud infrastructure (14%).
Aus der Studie wurde deutlich, dass der Faktor Zeit Sicherheitsteams nicht in die Karten spielt.Sixty-eight percent of respondents believe their organisation would be more successful at defending against cyberattacks if it devoted more resources to preventive cybersecurity. Yet six in 10 respondents (66%) say the cybersecurity team is too busy fighting critical incidents to take a preventive approach to reducing their organisation’s exposure.
Cyber-Experten zufolge ist eine reaktive Haltung zum größten Teil darauf zurückzuführen, dass ihre Teams Schwierigkeiten haben, sich ein genaues Bild von ihrer Angriffsoberfläche zu machen, inklusive Einblick in unbekannte Assets, Cloud-Ressourcen, Code-Schwachstellen und Systeme für Benutzerberechtigungen.Die Komplexität von Infrastruktur – und die damit verbundene Abhängigkeit von mehreren Cloud-Systemen, zahlreichen Tools zur Verwaltung von Identitäten und Berechtigungen sowie verschiedenen Assets mit Internetanbindung – hat zur Folge, dass es an diversen Stellen zu Fehlkonfigurationen und übersehenen Assets kommen kann.Over half of respondents (60%) said a lack of data hygiene prevents them from drawing quality data from user privilege and access management systems, as well as from vulnerability management systems. While the majority of respondents (78%) say they consider user identity and access privileges when they prioritise vulnerabilities for patching/remediation, 62% say their organisation lacks an effective way of integrating such data into their preventive cybersecurity and exposure management practices.
Ein Mangel an Kommunikation auf höchster Ebene verkompliziert und verschärft das Cybersecurity-Problem in Unternehmen.Während Angreifer Umgebungen fortlaufend unter die Lupe nehmen, finden Meetings zu geschäftskritischen Systemen bestenfalls in monatlichen Abständen statt.Seventy-two percent of respondents say they meet monthly with business leaders to discuss which systems are business critical, while 12% hold such meetings only once per year and 2% say they never hold such meetings.
“Far too many security teams are being overwhelmed by the sheer volume of cyberattacks they have to react to, rather than focusing efforts on reducing risks. As the attack surface becomes ever more complex, caused by trends like cloud migration and AI, this imbalance will only deepen,” said Maher Jadallah, Senior Director Middle East & North Africa, Tenable. “Firefighting is not just exhausting, but also leaves the organisation open to unacceptable risks. Security teams need to change tactic to focus instead on preventative security that deflects cyberattacks and stops threat actors gaining a toehold into the infrastructure. That will need security leadership to be involved in high-end business decision making rather than consulted after the fact. Only then will steps be taken to reduce risks and strengthen defences.”
A whitepaper is available with further results from the study, including how organisations can address the challenges and move from a reactive security posture to a preventive approach.
About Tenable
Tenable® is the Exposure Management company. Rund 43.000 Unternehmen aus aller Welt verlassen sich auf Tenable, wenn es um die Erkennung und Minimierung von Cyberrisiken geht. Als Erfinder von Nessus® hat Tenable sein Know-how im Bereich des Schwachstellen-Managements erweitert, um die weltweit erste Plattform bereitzustellen, mit der jedes digitale Asset auf jeder beliebigen Computing-Plattform erkannt und abgesichert werden kann. Weitere Informationen finden Sie auf tenable.com.
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