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An Independently conducted Study Conducted by Ponemon Institute LLC; sponsored by NetWitness Corporation

 This white paper summarizes the results of a comprehensive study on advanced threats conducted by the Ponemon Institute and NetWitness Corporation, surveying 591 IT and IT security practitioners located in the United States.  The results of the study showed the predominant majority of advanced threats are represented by unknown, zero-day attacks, and there are increasingly many instances where known attacks are being re-engineered and repackaged to extend their usefulness.

According to the IT and IT security practitioners in our study, the issue of advanced threats is of growing concern - with 83% stating that they believe their organization has been the target of such threats in the recent past. According to the study, the top two problems organizations face in managing advanced threats are insufficient intelligence and the proper security technologies. The majority of respondents also believe that advanced exploits and malware have successfully evaded the anti-virus (AV) and intrusion detection system

(IDS) technologies they primarily rely upon to prevent attacks against their information systems. In addition to the difficulty in preventing advanced threats, the study reveals how slow organizations are to detect them.

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