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1. State of Cybersecurity
Report 2020

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State of Cybersecurity Report
(SOCR) 2020
194
Organizations across 35
countries surveyed
6,500+
Wipro CDC incidents analyzed
21
Contributing Partners
30+
Security products analyzed
for vulnerabilities
1.1Million
Cyber intelligence alerts
analyzed

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Structure of the report
MACRO View
STATE OF ATTACKS,
BREACHES & LAW
01.
COVID-19
A CYBER PERSPECTIVE
02.
MICRO View
STATE OF CYBER RESILIENCE
03.
MESO View
STATE OF COLLABORATION
04.
FUTURE View
FUTURE OF CYBER
05.
INDUSTRY View
SECTOR PERSPECTIVES
06.

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State of attacks, breaches & law
41% Black-market data sold belongs to BFSI Sector
Analysis of year long intelligence alerts indicates significant activity with
stolen data in underground economy.
30+ Cyber Defenders have Weaknesses
The CVE data indicates that security products continue to show
propensity for vulnerabilities for code execution & authorization bypass
57% Analysed countries have strong breach notification laws
Breach notification laws were examined for 23 countries across 4
parameters for their stringency

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State of cyber resilience
12% Top Investment
Priorities
35% - Security
Orchestration and
Automation
1
20% - Zero Trust
Architecture
2
14% - Hybrid Cloud
Security
3
42%
% of IT Budget for
Security
Security Budgets are
increasing. 14% of
organizations were
allocated budget more than
12% of IT budget
Organizations struggle to
Retain Talent
Cyber Talent
42% of the organizations
were finding it difficult to
retain top quality cyber
talent.

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COVID 19: A cybersecurity perspective
70
%
94
%
76
%
During COVID-19
Organizations are concerned about
endpoint hygiene
During COVID-19
Organizations are prioritizing remote
access/VPN enablement
During COVID-19
Organizations are increasing Device
security (EDR, etc..)
87
%
94
%
Post COVID-19
Organizations want to increase
Secure Cloud Migration
Post COVID-19
Organizations are planning for
Secure Digital Transformation
Post COVID-19 & Cybersecurity
Edge Security Deployment (Remote Patching,
Native Edge Controls, Cloud Native Security,
DDoS Sinkholes) are expected to accelerate
showing radical cybersecurity resilience
changes

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Best security practices to emulate
Adopt Automation in Security
Controls
Automated Data Discovery and Classification
Consider automated data discovery and
classification as the most effective data
security control.
32%
Cloud – Deal quickly with over
Permissions
Cloud Identities Over permissioned
Dangerous delta exists between
permissions granted and permissions used
for Cloud Identities
95%
OT/IOT – Identify & Monitor
Organizations stepping up on
Industrial asset identification &
monitoring19%
65%

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State of collaboration
60% Organizations are increasingly
participating in attack simulation
exercises to assess preparedness
23% of organizations are not
confident of addressing third-party
supply chain threats
57% of organizations share only
indicators of compromise – malicious
IPs, URLs and domains
79% of organizations have Cyber
Insurance as partial Risk transfer
mechanism
64% of organizations consider
reputational risk as the barrier for
information sharing among peers

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Future of cybersecurity
49% of the cybersecurity patent filings
were in the AI/ML, and data science
space
IoT Device Security has received
highest seed investments in the past 3
years
7% of the cybersecurity patent filings
were in the 5G space.
Payment fraud has received second
most seed investment in the past 3
years