Less than half of Belgian companies use safety measures such as two-step verification (2FA) or multi-factor authentication (MFA). This is what a study of the Cybersecurity Center Belgium (CCB) reveals.
At least one Belgian firm is the victim of a cyber attack every day. Of the 250 companies interviewed by the CCB in July, some 70 percent estimate the risk of being targeted in the future. However, less than half of them (46.4 percent) took the appropriate measures to protect them.
‘Absolute minimum measure’
‘These data and the number of incidents are very disturbing,’ said Miguel de Bruycker, CEO of the CCB. ‘In a digital environment where password hacking is considered a real threat by 58 percent of companies, the 2FA should be an absolute minimum measure.’ Cybercriminals regularly try to steal connection identifiers by phishing. If they get there, it is often because the 2FA is not installed or at least not for everyone.
According to the CCB, more than 80 percent of current incidents could be avoided thanks to the appropriate use of two-step verification (2FA) or multi-factor authentication (MFA). ‘Mail accounts, cloud platforms, VPN connections and administrator interfaces, in particular, could be better secure thanks to this kind of additional identification’, specifies by Bruycker. And also highlight the importance of raising awareness among employees about secure connection.
