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Cisco 2014 Annual Security Report

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The 2014 Cisco Annual Security Report highlights the most important security trends of the year and provides tips and guidance to keep enterprise technology environments more secure.

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Cisco stays ahead of and shares the latest threats by using real-time threat intelligence from Cisco Security Intelligence Operations (SIO), and this year’s report also incorporates Sourcefire telemetry.

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Cisco SIO is the world’s largest cloud-based security ecosystem, using more than 75 terabits of live data feeds from deployed Cisco email, web, firewall and intrusion prevention system (IPS) solutions.

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Cisco 2014 Annual Security Report Highlights

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Overall vulnerabilities and threats reached the highest level since initial tracking began in May 2000.

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There is a shortage of more than a million security professionals across the globe in 2014.

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100% of a sample of 30 of the world’s largest multinational company networks generated visitor traffic to Web sites that host malware.

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Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have increased in both volume and severity.

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Multipurpose Trojans counted as the most frequently encountered web-delivered malware, at 27% of total encounters in 2013.

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Java continues to be the most frequently exploited programming language targeted by online criminals.

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99% of all mobile malware targeted Android devices.

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In 2012 and 2013, there was remarkable growth in malware encounters for the agriculture and mining industry—formerly a relatively low-risk sector.

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Reactions to the 2014 Cisco Annual Security Report

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Instead of having healthy caution about offering access to networks and infrastructure, users are placing too much trust in the systems designed to protect them.

Source: David Roe, CSM Wire

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In short, while defense tools are improving, the lack of skilled security professionals across all of the security practice areas is impacting organizations’ abilities to monitor and secure networks. Source: Peter Bernstein, TechZone360.

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If technologies like cloud computing and the growth in the use of mobile technologies are creating a wider landscape for hackers to work on, then trust is the open door letting hackers into systems.

Source: David Roe, CSM Wire

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New classes of devices and new infrastructure architectures offer attackers opportunities to exploit unanticipated weaknesses and inadequately defended assets.

Source: Peter Bernstein, TechZone360

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99% of mobile malware is aimed at the Android operating system (OS), and 71% of all malicious websites target Google’s mobile OS. Source: Chris Merriman, The Inquirer

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Cybercriminals have learned that harnessing the power of Internet infrastructure yields far more benefits than simply gaining access to individual computers or devices.

Source: CIOL Bureau

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Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks- which disrupt traffic to and from targeted websites and can paralyze ISPs- have increased in both volume and severity.

Source: Peter Bernstein, TechZone360

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By targeting Internet infrastructure, attackers undermine trust in everything connected to or enabled by it.

Source: CIOL Bureau

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