According to Protecting Corporate Information in the Cloud, a study published by WSJ Studios and Symantec, 8 out of every 10 executives participate in activities that puts their company data in risk. This matches the tendency that Adriana García, Symantec Mexico director’s talked about during her participation in the Cybersecurity and Intelligence Congress, organized by the UDLAP Jenkins School.

According to García, back in 2016, cyber-attacks against consumers represented 69% of all reported attacks, while the other 31% corresponded to attacks against companies. In 2017, half of the reported attacks were made against consumers, and the other half against companies.

During 2018, targets changed radically as only 19% of reported attacks were made against consumers, while those against companies increased exponentially, reaching a total of 81%. While the main motives behind these attacks continue to be resource extraction and fraud, another variation has been detected, as another increase has been noticed in the search of confidential data.

“The issue is that said info could include the code for products yet to launch, or clients’ databases,” said García, adding that e-mail continues to be companies’ weakest spot. However, she claims that this has also changed thanks to tech, since, out of all the businessmen polled by Symantec for their research on cloud safety, 53% admitted that most of their work-load took place in the cloud, despite the fact that half of those polled admitted to not taking proper cloud safety measures despite the speed with which they have adopted the tech, evidenced by the 75% that admitted to having suffered a breach caused by weak configuration settings.