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Industry association Bitkom surveyed around 1,000 companies from
all sectors and found that 90% expect more cyberattacks in the
next 12 months, with the remaining 10% expecting the same level
of attacks.
Some 70% of companies that were targeted attributed the attacks
to organized crime, the survey found, adding 81% of companies
reported data theft, including customer data, access data and
passwords, as well as intellectual property such as patents.
Around 45% of companies said they could attribute at least one
attack to China, up from 42% in the previous year. Attacks
blamed on Russia came in second place at 39%.
"The threat situation for the German economy is worsening,"
Bitkom President Ralf Wintergerst said in a statement, adding
that companies must step up protective measures.
The increase in attacks has prompted companies to allocate 17%
of their IT budget to digital security, up from 14% last year,
but only 37% said they had an emergency plan to react to
security incidents in their supply chain, the survey showed.
($1 = 0.8958 euros)
(Reporting by Christian Kraemer; Writing by Riham Alkousaa;
Editing by Mark Potter)
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