{"id":41424,"date":"2023-05-23T16:24:05","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T13:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saudishopper.com.sa\/en\/?p=41424"},"modified":"2026-03-28T03:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T00:20:11","slug":"the-daily-number-of-human-driven-cyber-incidents-increased-by-1-5-times-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saudishopper.com.sa\/en\/the-daily-number-of-human-driven-cyber-incidents-increased-by-1-5-times-in-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"The daily number of human-driven cyber incidents increased by 1.5 times in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Research based on the analysis of incidents reported to customers of Kaspersky Managed Detection and Response (MDR) has revealed that<\/strong>\u00a0Security Operations Center (SOC) analysts discovered more than three high-severity incidents with direct human involvement every day in 2022.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The efficiency that external specialists provided while dealing with cybersecurity solutions and requirements of special knowledges were<\/a> the main reasons for the companies to outsource external experts in 2022. To address the lack of gaps in expertise among IT Security professionals and provide them with insights on the current threat landscape, Kaspersky analyzed anonymized customer incidents detected by its MDR service.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaspersky\u2019s annual Managed Detection and Response Analyst Report<\/a>[1]<\/sup><\/a> showed the high-severity incidents required an average 43.8 minutes to be detected by Kaspersky MDR[2]<\/sup><\/a>. Due to an increase in human-driven attacks this processing time grew by approximately 6% compared to previous year, as they take up more of SOC analyst time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regarding the nature of such incidents, 30% of them were associated with APTs[3]<\/sup><\/a>, 26% accounted for malware attacks, and just over 19% resulted from \u201cethical hacking\u201d (pentests, red teaming or any other types of cyber exercises conducted in customers\u2019 infrastructures either for the security assessment of IT systems or to test the operational readiness of the MDR service). The proportion of incidents involving publicly available critical vulnerabilities and the detection of traces of previous attacks involving humans was around 9%. The remaining incidents resulted from the successful use of social engineering techniques or were linked to insider threats.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018The MDR report shows that sophisticated attacks driven by humans continue to grow. They require more resources to be investigated and they take up more of SOC analyst time as this type of attack lends itself to automation to a lesser degree. To detect these attacks efficiently we recommend companies to implement comprehensive threat hunting practices combined with classic alert monitoring,\u2019 comments Sergey Soldatov, Head of Security Operations Center, Kaspersky. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For greater protection from advanced attacks, Kaspersky experts recommend the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n