New data underscores risk facing businesses as attackers side-step traditional security prevention technology. Rudimentary attacks, like information gathering, reputation blocks, fraud, and brute force attacks, increased by 71% from 2016-2017. The data represents a total volume rise in detected events from 15 million in 2016, to 21 million last year. Gartner: “Organizations are looking to improve real-time threat detection and incident response capabilities; however, they often struggle to invest limited resources in the required people, processes and technology””]
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