cyber trends
A FIREEYE REPORT HAS
REVEALED BOTH GOOD AND
BAD NEWS ABOUT EMERGING
CYBERSECURITY TRENDS. MOHAMMED
ABUKHATER, VICE PRESIDENT – MEA
AT FIREEYE, GIVES US THE LOWDOWN
ON DECREASING DETECTION TIMES,
EVOLVING THREATS FROM NATION-
STATES AND INCREASED ATTACKS
DURING M&A ACTIVITY.
E
arlier this year,
FireEye, the
intelligence-led
security company,
released the
Mandiant M-Trends
2019 Report. The
report shares statistics and insights
gleaned from Mandiant investigations
around the globe in 2018.
We spoke to Mohammed Abukhater, Vice
President – MEA at FireEye, to find out
more about the report and its findings.
Report reveals
positive and
negative trends
The report says in 2018 the
median duration between the
start of an intrusion and its
identification by an internal team
was 57.5 days. This has been
decreasing in recent times. Why
is this? to detect and contain a breach?’ I see
the decrease (in time taken to detect a
breach) as the biggest positive in our
M-Trends Report for the past year. The
other fact we need to highlight is 60%
of the breaches were discovered by
internal teams rather than external ones.
There has been a shift from 2011 year
on year. You can see there has been a
big increase in terms of detection by the
internal team.
The dwell time usually is a sign where we
ask ‘is this organisation mature enough This could be related to many reasons,
one is the increase in the maturity of
18
organisations for different aspects; one
being in terms of process – they have
enhanced their processes in terms of
handling breaches.
Another factor is the investment in
talent. More organisations tend to hire
talented resources who specialise in
cybersecurity. Some of the countries
in the Gulf area tend to hire local
or national resources to keep the
confidentiality of the data and they have
invested heavily since the beginning of
2018 in training their local nationals.
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