14.5% Indian companies could not detect any cyber attack in 2018: Report  

Nearly 14.5% of Indian companies could not detect any cyber attacks last year as finance and Information and communications technology (ICT) companies detected most attacks globally, a new report said on Tuesday.

According to cyber security provider F-Secure, there was a significant increase in attack traffic in the latter half of 2018.

"While attacks are increasing, it seems many companies are struggling with incident detection. Nearly 22% of companies did not detect a single attack in 2018 globally," said the report.

The F-Secure survey found that 20 per cent of respondents detected a single attack during the last 12-month period and 31% detected 2-5 attacks

"Today's threats are completely different from 10 or even 5 years ago. Preventative measures and strategies won't stop everything any more, so I've no doubt that many of the companies surveyed don't have a full picture of what's going on with their security," said Leszek Tasiemski, Vice President of Cyber Security Product (Research & Development), at F-Secure.

The F-Secure survey found that 20% of respondents detected a single attack during the last 12-month period and 31% detected 2-5 attacks.

F-Secure's detection and response solutions detected 15 threats in a single month at a company with 1,300 endpoints and seven threats in a single month at a company with 325 endpoints.