Company’s latest report reveals the increasing threats organizations must address and protect against with robust cybersecurity solutions.
Manama, Bahrain – Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, today released its 2021 annual cybersecurity report: Navigating New Frontiers. The report highlights the growing rate of cyber-attacks by malicious actors on digital infrastructures and individuals in the modern-day hybrid work environment.
The report states that globally Trend Micro solutions stopped over 94.2 billion threats in 2021, a 42% increase in the number of detections recorded in 2020. Attacks had surged over 53 billion in the second half of 2021, blocking 41 billion threats in H1 2021. Ransomware attackers are shifting their focus to critical businesses and industries more likely to pay, and double extortion tactics ensure that they are able to profit.
Ransomware-as-a-service offerings have opened the market to cybercriminals with limited technical knowledge, as well as given rise to more specialization, such as initial access brokers who are now an essential part of the cybercrime supply chain. Threat actors are getting better at exploiting human error to compromise cloud infrastructure and remote workers. Homeworkers are often prone to take more risks than those in the office, which makes phishing a greater risk.
In Bahrain, Trend Micro solutions detected and blocked over 13 million (13,099,967) email threats, 480,244 malware attacks, and more than 1.7 million (1,760,236) URL victims’ attacks. Furthermore, shielding remote learning and working, Smart Home Network (SHN) solutions protected devices and networks from 12,627 SHN inbound and outbound attacks and prevented 429,817 SHN events.
“Bahrain has consistently met the hurdles of the evolving threat landscape through the pandemic and many other events that have created a ripple effect in their digital environments,” said Assad Arabi, Managing Director, Gulf Cluster, Trend Micro. “And in today’s hybrid-rich operations, organizations have had to reassess their cybersecurity strategies to meet the challenges of protecting employees in remote locations with access to an enterprise network. The annual cybersecurity report provides necessary insight that can dictate the correct course of actions in shielding all digital journeys with robust multilayered solutions from highly sophisticated threats.”
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Trend Micro, a global cybersecurity leader, helps make the world safe for exchanging digital information. Fueled by decades of security expertise, global threat research, and continuous innovation, Trend Micro's cybersecurity platform protects hundreds of thousands of organizations and millions of individuals across clouds, networks, devices, and endpoints. As a leader in cloud and enterprise cybersecurity, the platform delivers a powerful range of advanced threat defence techniques optimized for environments like AWS, Microsoft, and Google, and central visibility for better, faster detection and response. With 7,000 employees across 65 countries, Trend Micro enables organizations to simplify and secure their connected world. www.TrendMicro.com.
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