Internal Network and Advanced Persistent Threats

·         Respondents ranked botted hosts as their number one concern.

·         The proportion of respondents seeing APTs on their networks increased from 20 percent to 30 percent year over year.

·          57 percent of survey respondents do not have a solution deployed to identify employee-owned devices accessing the corporate network.

DDoS attacks against mobile networks in India more than doubled

·         Nearly a quarter of the respondents offering mobile services indicated that they have seen DDoS attacks impacting their mobile Internet (Gi) infrastructure, doubling the proportion over the past year.

·         More than 20 percent offering mobile services indicated that they have suffered a customer-visible outage due to a security incident, down slightly from about one-third last year.

Application-layer attacks have become ubiquitous

·         Application-layer attacks are now common with almost all respondents indicating they have seen them during this survey period.

·         Continued strong growth in application-layer attacks targeting encrypted Web services (HTTPS) – 82 percent reported applications attacks against HTTP, up 17 percent over last year.

Dramatic Rise in DDoS Attack Size

·         In all previous years of the survey, the largest reported attack was 100 Gbps. This year, attacks peaked at 309 Gbps and multiple respondents reported attacks larger than 100 Gbps.

·         DDoS attacks against customers remains the top experienced threat.
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