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The Importance of Breach and Attack Simulation
Financial Services are highly regulated, and with potentially lucrative targets for hackers that succeed in overcoming defenses, the costs of a security breach for Financial Services firms are high. The average cost of a data breach in the financial sector was $5.2m in 2021. (i) Breach statistics show that Financial Services and Healthcare are the most targeted verticals; they are also the likeliest to be hit with ransomware infections. (ii) The following examples demonstrate how Threat Simulator helps to improve the performance of security tools already deployed to protect Financial Services firms. One US fintech asked Keysight to check its defenses; we determined that they were missing 32% of high-severity web application attacks and 50% of all security attacks — even though they had DDoS protection and NGFWs in place. Another Financial Services technology provider, which was conducting WAF migration for one of its clients, used Keysight Threat Simulator to show that the client did not have visibility into all encrypted attacks. As a result, they reconfigured their client’s WAF so that it could block 100% of attacks.
(i) IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report, 2021 (ii) Forescout State of Internet Security, 2021
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