Kaspersky Lab: Businesses pay significant sums to restore damages from a digital attack if their virtual infrastructure is affected during the incident. Specifically, large businesses can spend over $800.000 on average to recover from a infringement of security, twice the amount compared to incidents involving only the physical infrastructure. 
This is one of the conclusions of her special report Kaspersky Lab for Virtual Infrastructure Security, based on the findings of a global survey conducted by 2015 from Kaspersky Lab and B2B International, with over 5.500 companies participating.
According to the report, the same situation also applies to small and medium-sized enterprises. More specifically, these companies reported having suffered losses above $ 26.000 on average, after an attack on their physical infrastructure. When the security breach touched the virtual infrastructure, then the cost was up to $ 60.000.
The main reason behind the additional cost of a security incident affecting virtual environments is that the majority of businesses use virtual infrastructure for the most important operations. 62% of companies that have already adopted virtualization platforms are likely to trust them for their most critical business processes.
While an attack on physical nodes leads to a temporary loss of access to critical information in 36% of incidents, this percentage increases to 66% when virtual servers and desktops are affected. Also, attacks affecting virtual environments require additional costs more often, as specialist work is required. In these cases, businesses do not only resort to IT consultants, but also need the services of lawyers, experts in management risks etc.
The complexity of security measures in a virtual environment and the misconception of the threat landscape are two additional elements that increase the cost of restoration in the virtual environment. The Kaspersky Lab report shows that 42% of businesses believe that security risks in virtual environments are significantly lower than in "physical" environments. 45% of companies report that security management in virtual environments is perceived as a problem. In addition, as soon as 27% of enterprises has implemented a security solution specifically for virtual environments.
“Businesses expect that the transition to virtual environments will reduce IT costs and optimize their infrastructure. However, the research results show that if not enough attention is paid to the security of virtual environments, the costs may outweigh the benefits. So we believe that businesses should use custom security solutions that span virtual environments and offer centralized management and reporting. The solution should have a low impact on resources, high possibilities εντοπισμού και την ικανότητα άμεσης recognitionof suspicious activities. That's why we've incorporated this vision and our best technologies into the Kaspersky Security solution for Virtualization, commented Matvey Voytov, Corporate Product Group Manager, Kaspersky Lab.
More information about Kaspersky Security for Virtualization, the company's specially customized solution for virtual environments, is available at site of Kaspersky Lab.
The full report, with additional statistics on the use of virtualization platforms, is available at a special by clicking here the company's.
