Security Breaches, Network Exploits and Vulnerabilities: A Conundrum and an Analysis

Enterprise systems are continuously on cyber-attacks as struggle for solutions are sort. Today, these organizations spend over $70 billion on IT security, but are unable to protect the organization since cyber criminals routinely discover exploits and breach those defenses with zero-day attacks that bypass traditional technologies. These attacks occur during the vulnerability window that exists in the time between when a loophole is first exploited and when software developers start to develop and publish a counter to that threat. Many organizations had been breached by the zero-day attack concept. This means that at least one attacker had bypassed all layers of organization defense-in depth architecture. Using data from our survey of 202 participants, this study analyses how attacks are changing the cyber platform and why traditional and legacy defenses are functioning below par and expectations.