More than three-quarters of geo-distributed businesses using container development faced cybersecurity attacks

In its latest study titled “Managing geographically distributed businesses: challenges and solutions”, Kaspersky gathered the opinions of IT Security, Information Security professionals, and C-level decision makers from 20 countries working for geo-distributed companies regarding network security challenges in building and maintaining multi-site infrastructure. The study also highlights the problems these organizations face when operating in hybrid cloud and containerized environments. 

The vast majority (98%) of the companies in the META region with multi-site networks participating in the study, had in-house IT development teams, with 79% of them using a container development method. Of those using container methods, 85% reported experiencing cybersecurity incidents related to containers and/ or Kubernetes in the last 12 months.

The consequences of the cyber incidents experienced by these companies were severe: 38% of them led to confidential data leaks, 28% caused financial losses, and 38% resulted in the loss of customer trust. Respondents reported the primary reasons for the attacks were errors in configurations (37%), flaws in runtime security process (43%), and late detection of malware in containers (36%).