Firmware attacks, a grey area in cybersecurity of organizations

From securityaffairs.co

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Microsoft recently published a report that states, titled “March 2021 Security Signals report,” that revealed that more than 80% of enterprises were victims of at least one firmware attack in the past two years. The study pointed out that only 29% of the targeted organizations have allocated budgets to protect firmware.

A vast majority of companies in a global survey from Microsoft report being a victim of a firmware-focused cyberattack, but defense spending lags, but defense spending lags.

The study was based on the contribution of 1,000 enterprise security decision-makers from China, Germany, Japan, the U.K. and the U.S. – showed that most security investments are going to security updates, vulnerability scanning and advanced threat protection solutions.

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