Cyber Security | Middle East & Africa (MEA)
Key Findings
Common reasons for breaches #
Internal process issues and insecure applications are both (36% each) the top reasons for security incidents.
Security issues faced in the last 12 months #
35% of respondents said their organizations faced DDoS attacks in the last 12 months.
OWASP web application security risks #
Insufficient logging and monitoring came out at the top (44%) as the most critical security risk to web applications, followed by SQL injection and using components with known vulnerabilities (each 33%)
cybersecurity investment areas #
When it comes to strengthening cyber security, investment areas like cloud security takes the top spot (73%), followed by consolidation—54% of respondents chose identity management, threat management, and network and application security.
Risk Mitigation | Middle East & Africa (MEA)
Key Findings
Infrastructure security risk mitigation #
73% of the respondents reported implementing robust password policies as the top recommendation to mitigate infrastructure security risk, followed by immediately updating security patches (68%) and implementing VPN access (64%).
Application security risk mitigation #
71% of the respondents reported using a web application firewall (WAF) as the top recommendation to mitigate application security risk, followed by periodic penetration testing (57%) and encrypting data at the source (52%).
