How much time do hackers spend on average per hack

Researchers from the SANS Institute and Bishop Fox have published new work that shows

how much time does the average white hat hacker spend discovering a vulnerability?
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We are talking about those of them that allow him to further penetrate the internal network of the victim. It turned out that this is not so much time - on average, less than 10 hours.

The data collected showed that the mostfast in this regard are those involved in testing the security of cloud systems. Having discovered a vulnerability or weakness in this segment, about 58% of hackers manage to penetrate the internal network in less than 5 hours.

Five or six hours for hacking requiredethical hacker are not a big surprise. This is in line with what real hackers do, especially through social engineering, phishing, and other real attack vectors.

Tom Aston Assistant Vice President Bishop Fox