When it comes to active malware infection, as many as 18.5% of a company's computers are actively communicating with criminals, according to Damballa's "State of Infections" report.
No firm is exempt, as this occurs across both large and small enterprises, the study found. Company policies, more so than company size, determines the "cleanliness" of any given network.
"We recommend that security teams work under the assumption that prevention is not fail proof, so the ability to automatically detect and accelerate the time to response is essential to minimizing risk," says Brian Foster, CTO of Damballa, a firm that detects active threats and provides cyber protection and containment.
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