Every third serious cyber incident in Russian companies in 2024 was associated with unreliable administrator passwords

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Every third serious cyber incident in Russian companies in 2024 was associated with unreliable administrator passwords
November 18th. /MEDIA TALK/. According to a study by BI.ZONE, which RBC cites today, about 35% of cyber incidents where Russian companies suffered significant damage this year were due to the lack of a secure password policy. Experts have studied the work of more than 100 companies in the 3rd quarter of 2024.

A fifth (18%) of the cases were related to incorrect access settings to critical infrastructure - servers and databases of companies. According to research results, every fiftieth user in the company has a "weak" password, if such an employee has administrative access rights to the system, this can lead to hacking.


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Among the private errors is the incorrect setting of access rights for so-called "superuser" accounts with unlimited rights. 15% of highly critical incidents occurred due to a lack of control over such users.

Recently, we told you that IT companies in the Russian Federation have begun to increase the requirements for the skills of employees
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