Organizations are detecting and containing attacks faster since GDPR

For organizations in the EMEA region, the 'dwell time' between the start of a cyber intrusion and it being identified, has fallen from 177 days to 54 days since the introduction of GDPR. A new report from FireEye Mandiant also shows a decrease in dwell time globally, down 28 percent since the previous report. Median dwell time for organizations that self-detected their incident is 30 days, a 40 percent decrease year on year. But while internal dwell time has seen the greatest level of improvement, still 12 percent of investigations continue to have dwell times of greater than 700 days.… [Continue Reading]