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Security breaches are identified as one of the five most frequent root causes of major tech outages, collectively accounting for nearly 90% of all major outages alongside software bugs, configuration issues, database errors, and infrastructure failures.
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Sectors like energy and utilities face more security breaches compared to other types of failures
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Security incidents have resulted in an estimated cumulative $29.4 billion in losses from the 38 incidents considered in the dataset.
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Despite the percentage decrease, the number of major tech outages caused by security issues actually rose from 3 in the 1980s to 20 in the 2020s.
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In the first half of the 2020s (so far), security issues are behind 24% of the 82 failures catalogued.
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When combined with configuration and deployment errors, security breaches account for 34% of outages.
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In the 1980s, security breaches and cyberattacks were responsible for 50% of the 6 outages recorded during that decade.
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