1. Cisco 2017 Security Annual Report
The Cisco 2017 Annual Cybersecurity Report presents our latest security industry advances designed to help organizations and users defend against attacks. We also look at the techniques and strategies that adversaries use to break through those defenses. The report also highlights major findings from the Cisco 2017 Security Capabilities Benchmark Study, which examines the security posture of enterprises and their perceptions of their preparedness to defend against attacks.
Cisco 2017 Security Annual Report

2. Cisco 2017 Security Capabilities Benchmark Study
To gauge the perceptions of security professionals on the state of security in their
organizations, Cisco asked chief security officers (CSOs) and security operations
(SecOps) managers in several countries and at organizations of various sizes about
their perceptions of their own security resources and procedures. The Cisco 2017
Security Capabilities Benchmark Study offers insights on the maturity level of security
operations and security practices currently in use, and also compares these results
with those of the 2016 and 2015 reports. The study was conducted across 13
countries with more than 2900 respondents.

3. Major Findings
Three leading exploit kits—Angler, Nuclear, and Neutrino—abruptly disappeared from the landscape in 2016, leaving room for smaller players and new entrants to make their mark.

4. Exploit kit
F-secure.com
trendmicro.com

5. Major Findings
According to the Cisco 2017 Security Capabilities Benchmark Study
most companies use more than five security vendors and more than five security products in their environment.
55% of the security professionals use at least six vendors
45% use anywhere from one to five vendors
And 65% use six or more products.
The top constraints to adopting advanced security products and solutions, according to the benchmark study are:
Budget (35%)
product compatibility (28%)
Certification (25%)
Talent (25%).

6. Major Findings
The Cisco 2017 Security Capabilities Benchmark Study found that, due to various constraints, organizations:
can investigate only 56% of the security alerts they receive on a given day.
Half of the investigated alerts (28%) are deemed legitimate
less than half (46%) of legitimate alerts are remediated.
44% of security operations managers see more than 5000 security alerts per day.

7. Major Findings
27% of connected third-party cloud applications introduced by employees into enterprise environments in 2016 posed a high security risk.
Open authentication (OAuth) connections touch the corporate infrastructure and can communicate freely with corporate cloud and software-as-a- service (SaaS) platforms after users grant access.

8. Major Findings
An investigation by Cisco that included 130 organizations across verticals found that 75% of those companies are affected by adware infections. Adversaries can potentially use these infections to facilitate other malware attacks.

9. Major Findings
Spam accounts for nearly two-thirds (65%) of total volume
Cisco research suggests that global spam volume is growing due to large and thriving spam-sending botnets
8% to 10% of the global spam observed in could be classified as malicious the percentage of spam with malicious attachments is increasing, and adversaries appear to be experimenting with a wide range of file types to help their campaigns succeed.

10. Major Findings
The Cisco 2017 Security Capabilities Benchmark Study also found that nearly a quarter of the organizations that have suffered an attack lost business opportunities
Four in 10 said those losses are substantial
One in five organizations lost customers due to an attack
30% lost revenue.
36% had their operations affected
26% Brand reputation and customer retantion

11. Major Findings Network outages that are caused by security breaches
45% of the outages lasted from 1 to 8 hours
15% lasted 9 to 16 hours
11% lasted 17 to 24 hours
41% of these outages affected between 11% and 30% of systems.

12. Major Findings
The cadence of software updates can affect user behavior when it comes to installing patches and upgrades. According to our researchers, regular and predictable update schedules result in users upgrading their software sooner, reducing the time during which adversaries can take advantage of vulnerabilities.
The 2017 Security Capabilities Benchmark Study found that most organizations rely on third-party vendors for at least 20 percent of their security, and those who rely most heavily on these resources are most likely to expand their use in the future.