COMPANIES SHOULD EXTEND EFFORTS TO FIGHT CYBERATTACKS

Organizations that oversee sensitive information remain woefully unprepared to fend off increasingly clever and sophisticated data raiders, according to a new study.

A report issued Tuesday by Silicon Valley security software firm FireEye Inc. Data breach victims took a median of 205 days – almost seven months – to realize they had had been hit, giving “attackers a free rein in breached environments far too long before being detected,” the report said, while “run-of-the-mill cyber criminals”...

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