100 percent of corporate networks vulnerable to insider attacks

Penetration testing company Positive Technologies has released some alarming figures surrounding the vulnerability of corporate networks to insider attacks. During testing performed as an internal attacker, the company's researchers were able to obtain full control of infrastructure on all the corporate networks they attempted to compromise. Only seven percent of systems were assessed as having 'moderate' difficulty of accessing critical resources. Penetrating the network perimeter has become easier over time too. The difficulty of accessing the internal network was assessed as 'trivial' in 56 percent of tests in 2017, compared to 27 percent in 2016. On average, Positive Technologies testers… [Continue Reading]