71 percent of Office 365 users suffer malicious account takeovers

New research from network detection and response company Vectra AI shows that 88 percent of companies have accelerated their cloud and digital transformation projects due to COVID-19. But it also finds that 71 percent of Microsoft Office 365 deployments have suffered an account takeover of a legitimate user's account, not just once, but on average seven times in the last year. Worryingly only one in three security professionals believe they could identify and stop an account takeover attack immediately, the majority expecting to take days or even weeks to intercept such a breach. Tim Wade, technical director of the CTO… [Continue Reading]