Below are the answers for our Christmas Cyber Quiz:
- 90% of data breaches are caused by phishing attacks. https://thesmallbusinessblog.net/how-many-phishing-emails-are-sent-daily/
- Most common cause of a data breach incident reported to ICO: data emailed to the wrong person. https://ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/data-security-incident-trends
- Instagram is the social media channel most likely to be hacked. https://atlasvpn.com/blog/revealed-instagram-users-are-most-likely-to-get-their-accounts-hacked
- The average price of a hacked social media account on the dark web is around $14. https://whizcase.com/dark-web-social-media-prices/
- The country with the highest percentage of cyber security spend in IT budget is Brazil at 15.6%. https://www.comparitech.com/blog/information-security/uk-cyber-security-statistics/#3_113_of_UK_IT_budgets_are_spent_on_security On average, companies worldwide allocate nearly 13% percent of their IT budget to IT security. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1319677/companies-it-budget-allocated-to-security-worldwide/
- According to https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/cybersecurity-by-country/ the most cyber secure country is Denmark. NCSI, which has a slightly different ranking methodology, says it is Greece. https://ncsi.ega.ee/ncsi-index/?order=rank
- Is 3,000 years. https://www.hivesystems.io/blog/are-your-passwords-in-the-green
- 43% of ransomware attacks in UK were stopped before data encryption. https://www.comparitech.com/blog/information-security/uk-cyber-security-statistics/
- Most cyber security professionals in 2022 in the UK are generalists. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1072767/Cyber_security_skills_in_the_UK_labour_market_2022_-_findings_report.pdf
- The UK cyber workforce gap (the annual shortfall) is estimated to be about 14,100 in 2022.https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1072767/Cyber_security_skills_in_the_UK_labour_market_2022_-_findings_report.pdf