The 2018 State of Endpoint Security Risk, sponsored by Barkly, reveals that organizations are being attacked at an alarming rate with significant financial consequences. In this year’s research, nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of respondents report that their company experienced one or more endpoint attacks that successfully compromised data assets and/or IT infrastructure over the past 12 months, a 17 percent increase from last year’s research (54 percent of respondents).

Ponemon Institute surveyed 660 IT security professionals responsible for managing and reducing their organization’s endpoint security strategy. Companies represented in this research are very concerned about the significant increase in new and unknown threats against their organization (70 percent in 2018 and 69 percent in 2017). Only 29 percent of respondents say their traditional, signature-based antivirus solutions provide the protection needed to stop all serious attacks against their systems, including new and unknown threats.