- Dec 30, 2012
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Nearly 85 percent of enterprises are harboring malware, and a new bot emerges each day, new Check Point report says.
Nearly three-fourths of enterprises have at least one bot-infected endpoint living in their corporate networks, and every three minutes a bot communicates with its command and control server.
New data from Check Point Software Technologies highlights the botnet and malware infestation within the enterprise, with 84 percent of organizations found infected with malware, and 2.2 pieces of unknown malware hitting them once every hour. Less than 10 percent of antivirus products had detected unknown malware, and the number of organizations found with bots jumped from 63 percent in 2012 to 73 percent in 2013.
An enterprise computer is infected with bot malware every 24 hours, according to the report.
"The prevalence of bot infections within enterprises is staggering," says Kellman Meghu, head of security engineering at Check Point. "Check Point also found that 77 percent of bots were active within enterprises for more than four weeks. With all of this in mind, it is important for organizations to deploy threat prevention technologies to identify and contain the spread of malware, as well as even prevent initial infection."
CheckPoint also boiled down some of its data into some telling stats about security woes in the enterprise:
Nearly three-fourths of enterprises have at least one bot-infected endpoint living in their corporate networks, and every three minutes a bot communicates with its command and control server.
New data from Check Point Software Technologies highlights the botnet and malware infestation within the enterprise, with 84 percent of organizations found infected with malware, and 2.2 pieces of unknown malware hitting them once every hour. Less than 10 percent of antivirus products had detected unknown malware, and the number of organizations found with bots jumped from 63 percent in 2012 to 73 percent in 2013.
An enterprise computer is infected with bot malware every 24 hours, according to the report.
"The prevalence of bot infections within enterprises is staggering," says Kellman Meghu, head of security engineering at Check Point. "Check Point also found that 77 percent of bots were active within enterprises for more than four weeks. With all of this in mind, it is important for organizations to deploy threat prevention technologies to identify and contain the spread of malware, as well as even prevent initial infection."
CheckPoint also boiled down some of its data into some telling stats about security woes in the enterprise:
- Every 49 minutes, sensitive data is sent outside an organization
- Every minute, a host visits a malicious website
- Every nine minutes, a high-risk application is being used (think BitTorrent)
- Every 27 minutes, unknown malware is downloaded
