Minutes
Time taken from attacker’s first action in event chain to asset compromise.
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Months
Time taken for data breaches to be discovered by government agencies.
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$3.92M
The average total cost of a data breach for organizations globally.
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~15 Sec
Time required for complete visibility and control across an agency's network.
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Going above and beyond CDM requirements by defending at the speed of cyber.
Studies have shown that the federal government is slow to discover when networks have been compromised. Breaches in the public sector often take months to discover and contain, and are over 2.5 times more likely to be undiscovered for years.
To combat this problem, DHS has instituted a 72-hour network scanning goal as part of the CDM Program. While this is a step in the right direction and marked a substantial improvement in federal risk management, attackers operate in minutes and seconds.
