Much of the news you hear about cyberattacks and critical data breaches are examples of survivorship bias. Detected and neutralized attacks only comprise part of the total attacks. Up to 65% of cyber-attacks go undetected. That means that the most disastrous data breach in history may be one you have never heard about because no one has found it yet. It also means you can’t trust your current network security system when it says your data, applications, and devices are secure. Just look at the Belgian government. Hackers reportedly attacked the systems of the federal home affairs ministry in 2019, but the breach went undetected until just last month—the hackers were inside the network for two years before cyber teams finally detected the intrusion.
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