40% of organizations store admin passwords in spreadsheets and text files

CyberArk researchers surveyed 750 IT companies and cybersecurity solution developers around the world. The geography of the study is extensive - the USA, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Israel, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. According to the survey , 40% of organizations store passwords in Word documents and spreadsheets. This is not about simple, but about privileged and administrator passwords. 28% use USB drives or a dedicated server for this purpose for this purpose.

55% of respondents said that they have all the necessary processes for managing privileged accounts.
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79% of respondents said that they had learned the lessons of recent cyber attacks and taken appropriate measures:

• in 25% of cases, the number of installations of malware detection (malware detection) increased;

• in 24% of cases, organizations began to use protection for end devices (endpoint security) more often;

• in 16% of cases the number of installations of information security analytics systems (security analytics) increased.

Three quarters of cybersecurity IT solutions developers believe they can prevent attacks on their internal network. 82% believe that this industry is progressing significantly in recent times. Previously, only 44% agreed with this.

However, 36% of respondents believe that their networks were infected in the last 12 months, or they are infected now. 46% indicate that their company has been the victim of a ransomware attack over the past two years.

95% of surveyed companies have a cyber attack plan. But only 45% discuss it and regularly conduct "exercises" with the participation of all employees.

68% of respondents believe the main problem is the loss of customer data as a result of a cyber attack. 57% of respondents store data in the cloud, but are not sure that the provider will be able to protect them from intruders.

According to the “scale of the tragedy” cyber attack, the respondents were as follows:

• DDoS - 19%
• Phishing - 14%
• Cyber ​​torture - 13%
• Capture and use of privileged accounts - 12%
• External attacks, perimeter breaches integrity (perimeter breaches) - 12%

However, a previous Varonis study shows that only 39% of employees believe that all the necessary safety measures have been taken. In 2014, this opinion was supported by 56%. Researchers surveyed 3,000 employees of IT companies in the US and Europe.

According to a Ponemon Institute study, 61% of IT professionals believe that protecting against cyber attacks is a high priority task. Among ordinary users, this opinion is shared by only 38%.

The founder and director of the Ponemon Institute, Dr. Larry Ponemon, believes that because of this attitude of ordinary users, the task of protecting information is more complicated.