98 per cent of British companies have been a victim of a security incident over the past 12 months, according to new research.

The study from Barracuda surveyed 800 IT professionals from the US, Europe, and Australia. The report does not clarify how many UK participants took part in the survey.

Web application attacks were revealed as the most common security incident for UK organisations, with 45 per cent encountering at least one in the past year.

A further 29 per cent suffered from a malicious external hardware or removable media, 36 per cent encountered a DDoS attack, 31 per cent had remote access compromised, and 29 per cent encountered a compromised supply chain.

“In the current threat landscape, critical infrastructure is an attractive target for cybercriminals, but unfortunately IIoT/OT security projects often take a backseat to other security initiatives or fail due to cost or complexity, leaving organisations at risk,” said Tim Jefferson, senior vice president of engineering for data, networks and application security, Barracuda. “Issues such as the lack of network segmentation and the number of organisations that aren’t requiring multifactor authentication leave networks open to attack and require immediate attention.”

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