Among the key differences During the past 12 months virtually all of this year’s SOES respondents 97 were the target of a phishing attack with the majority 59 experiencing more attacks than in prior years. But among large enterprises with more than 10000 employees this is even more widespread with fully 73 reporting a significant rise in phishing attempts. Two-thirds of this year’s SOES respondents also reported falling victim to ransomware but in this case smaller businesses were affected more severely.
While 70 acknowledged that a ransomware attack had harmed their business fewer than half of the large enterprises surveyed 46 were similarly hurt. Although the large majority of SOES respondents Whatsapp Mobile Number List said they are at least minimally prepared to deal with an attack that spoofs their email domain only 29 of smaller companies said they are fully prepared to cope with a spoofing threat compared with 35 for larger companies. Ditto for contending with a fraudulent website that mimics their own 28 vs. 33 even though smaller companies are just as likely as larger businesses to be attacked in this way.
Respondents both large and small said they are making extensive use of collaboration tools and see them as vital to their businesses. But smaller businesses are more likely to feel inadequately protected from the risks posed by these tools than their larger counterparts 60 vs. 51 even though the latter is seeing the greatest increases in collaboration tool-based attacks 42 vs. 36. Unsurprisingly bigger companies are far more likely than SMBs to have defensive technology in place.