11 Takeaways From the Symantec Cybersecurity Report

10. Web Server Attacks Are the Most Common in Government

“Web servers facilitate a variety of services for government and critical infrastructure sectors, such as hosting publicly available information, customer support portals, and online stores,” the study states. “Furthermore, a Web server may be a portal to an organization’s internal network and database systems.” Within the government, these types of attacks accounted for a massive 98.4 percent of cyberattacks. Though different industries within the government were targeted in different ways, such as shellcode and peer-to-peer attacks, Web servers were the most popular overall target.