In 2015, BitSight published a report, Beware the Botnets: Botnets Correlated to a Higher Likelihood of a Significant Breach. In that report, researchers discovered that companies with botnet grades of ‘B’ or lower were more than twice as likely to experience a significant data breach. Now two years since that study, researchers examined more than 70,000 organizations and found similar results, including additional risk vectors that correlate to an increased likelihood of an organization experiencing a breach. Organizations have begun to take action based on these findings by communicating with trusted third parties who are likely to experience a data breach based on their security posture.
Article Link: https://www.bitsighttech.com/blog/two-years-later-still-at-least-twice-as-likely