Every day is a game of Russian roulette
Compiled by Crystal Hartman
DATA, AS WE at ACDS have noted over and over, is increasingly the basis for sound and strategic business decisions. But data doesn’t have to be the sole province of business; we can draw on it to improve our personal lives as well. So this month, in observance of Cybersecurity Awareness, we’re introducing a new feature that we’ve been mulling for a while—The ACDS Index, a compendium of thematically related pieces of data that cumulatively tell a story… or at least provide a reality check. Cyber safety and cybersecurity aren’t the same thing, but habitual diligence in the former may help lead to the latter. Read on, and see how much of yourself you find reflected in these numbers.
Percentage of passwords that contain personal information, such as birthday or name: 59 Source:
Source: Google
Percentage of Americans who say they would change an online account password if they discovered it had been breached: 45
Source: Google
Number of times longer a 12-character password takes to crack versus a 6-character one: 62 trillion
(To put it in perspective, if a given computer could crack the six-character password in one second, it would still take more than two million years to crack the 12-character password)
Source: Scientific American
Percentage of attacks blocked by Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA): 99.9
Source: Microsoft
Chance that a mobile device has at least one high-risk app installed: 1 in 36
Source: Symantec
Total dollar amount that Americans lost due to COVID-19 and stimulus check scams: $97.39M
Source: atlasVPN
Percentage of employees citing distraction as the reason for falling for a phishing scam while working from home: 47
Source: Tessian
Number of new phishing websites that Google detected in 2020: 2.02 million, or an average of 46,000 per week
Source: Google
Number of data records compromised every second: 80, or 7 million daily
Source: Legal Jobs
Number of identity theft reports received by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in 2020: 1.4 million
Source: Security Magazine
Average percentage of companies’ folders that are properly protected: 5
Source: Varonis
Number of days the average organization takes to detect and contain a breach caused by a malicious attack: 315
Source: IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2020
Percentage of cybersecurity breaches caused by human error: 95
Source: Cybint
Percentage of businesses that find the cost of staying ahead of cyber criminals unsustainable: 69
Source: Accenture
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