GDPR improves dwell times

Organisations are detecting and containing cyber attacks faster since the introduction of GDPR in 2018, according to a report from FireEye Mandiant. In the EMEA region, the ‘dwell time’ for organizations- the time between the start of a cyber intrusion and it being identified- has fallen from 177 days to 54 days since the introduction of GDPR. There has also been a decrease in dwell time globally, which is down 28 percent since the previous report. The median dwell time for organizations that self-detected their incident is 30 days, a 40 percent decrease year on year. However, 12% of investigations continue to have dwell times of greater than 700 days.

Jake Moore, Cybersecurity Specialist at ESET:

“It’s great to see a positive GDPR story – and this is exactly what it was designed to help with. Dwell times have notoriously been longer than they should be over the years, but this statistic really shows that GDPR regulations are working, and that organisations are becoming more secure in the process. GDPR shouldn’t be seen as an inconvenience, but instead as a remedy to improve security. There is simply no excuse to have a dwell time of over 700 days and I would imagine that the 12% of companies that do would require a serious security overhaul.”

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