About 10% suffered critical data leakages, reports Kaspersky Lab

B2B International, in collaboration with Kaspersky Lab, has conducted the Global Corporate IT Security Risks 2013 survey which reveals that vulnerabilities in software regularly used by employees at work are the leading cause of internal cyber-security incidents in business. Vulnerabilities in legitimate software programs are a major source of corporate computer infections and critical data leakage. Approximately 39% of the survey participants said that over the past 12 months, this had been the case at least once for their organizations.

While the number of such incidents has fallen substantially since 2011  from 47% to 39%, it is still high. In total, approximately 85% of companies have reported internal IT security incidents, and software vulnerabilities were the single biggest cause.

At the same time, 25% of the survey participants suffered data leakages involving company business and caused by vulnerabilities in corporate software, while 10% of the companies reported leakages of critical corporate data leading to financial losses.

That is why using a security solution with advanced technologies facilitating the detection and interception of attacks launched via software vulnerabilities is critical for any company.