SecureLink releases Annual Security Report 2019

SecureLink, Part of Orange Cyberdefense, is publishing its Annual Security Report. This report is an important indicator for the status of European cybersecurity.

It features 60 pages of statistics obtained from first-hand data gathered in the five cyber-SOCs of the organization, in-depth analysis of the threat landscape and its changes and trends, as well as feature articles about the hot topics of the year and a timeline of important cyber events. The report provides insight based on exclusive research data and its focus on Europe make its content essential knowledge for planning ahead in one of the most thriving digital markets of the world. This is information everyone involved with digital enterprise should be aware of.

Content:

• Statistics on criticality, Malware types and attack campaigns, criticality and distribution among verticals
• Research: 2019 – The year of databreaches
• Research: Hunting medical records in the darknet
• Research: Who you really trust when using certificates for encryption
• Threat predictions
• 2019 Cyber News Timeline

“Coming together with Orange CyberDefense and SecureData to form the new European Cybersecurity Leader, R&D and intelligence driven cybersecurity services will remain a core part of our future DNA. With a combined number of over 40 experts dedicated to R&D and threat research, >200 ethical hackers, 35 published papers & presentations at cyber conferences over the last year and 2.5k unique ThreatIntelligence entries not known to any other sources we are proud to publish the next Annual Security Report.”

Thomas Fetten, CEO SecureLink

Some key findings from the ASR 2019:

• In 2019 threat actors raised the pressure on mid-sized organisations: Attacks on businesses of 1,000 – 10,000 employees increased by 80% in 2019 compared to the previous year. In organisations of less than 1,000 employees the per-head risc of being affected was 12 times higher than in larger ones.
• Malware was not the predominant incident type in 2019. This can be tracked to the extensive implementation of next-generation endpoint protection.
• One in three websites uses a certificate issued by an organisation that does not exist any more. This raises severe concerns about the worldwide PKI system used in HTTPS encrypted data transfer.
• more than 4 billion personal records and data sets have been leaked in 2019. This means statistically one in two persons have had personal data unlawfully disclosed.
• A full medical record including name, adress, prescriptions, treatment information, employer adress, emergency contacts & will may be on sale for as little as $12 on the darknet.

SecureLink publishes its Annual Security Report once a year for free. It can be downloaded from www.securelink.net/asr.