{"id":125383,"date":"2025-03-14T12:38:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T11:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/?p=125383"},"modified":"2025-04-07T09:15:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T08:15:26","slug":"kyndryl-highlights-one-in-three-irish-households-experience-cybercrime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/2025\/03\/14\/kyndryl-highlights-one-in-three-irish-households-experience-cybercrime\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyndryl highlights one in three Irish households experience cybercrime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kyndryl has published new research highlighting escalating threats from cyberattacks and scams to Irish households.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The findings offer an in-depth perspective on cybersecurity readiness, habits and vulnerabilities among individuals in Ireland, highlighting a lack of basic cybersecurity precautions and awareness, which include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>One in five (20%) respondents reported directly experiencing a cyberattack or online fraud in the past year.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>An additional 15% reported attacks within their household. In total, more than one in three (36%) Irish households have experienced cybercrime over the last 12 months.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Almost half (48%) of respondents reuse the same password across multiple sites.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>More than a quarter (26%) acknowledge using public Wi-Fi for sensitive activities like banking and online shopping, exposing themselves to attacks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;While businesses are grappling with the complexities of maintaining future-ready IT infrastructure, as highlighted in our recent <em>Kyndryl Readiness Report<\/em>, the same principles apply to consumers: effective cybersecurity starts with people,\u201d said Chris Davis, Managing Director, Kyndryl Ireland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCybersecurity readiness isn\u2019t just about having the latest tools &#8211; it\u2019s about fostering awareness and proactive behaviours among individuals. Increasing public awareness and education is crucial to help individuals protect themselves in an ever-evolving digital environment. At Kyndryl, we believe that a collaborative effort involving government, businesses and educational institutions is essential to fostering a more secure digital society, and we\u2019re committed to supporting that mission.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyndryl has published new research highlighting escalating threats from cyberattacks and scams to Irish households. The findings offer an in-depth perspective on cybersecurity readiness, habits and vulnerabilities among individuals in Ireland, highlighting a lack of basic cybersecurity precautions and awareness, which include: &#8220;While businesses are grappling with the complexities of maintaining future-ready IT infrastructure, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":125384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,62,24],"tags":[564,21982,17834],"class_list":["post-125383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-news","category-regional-news-newsletter","category-used","tag-cybersecurity","tag-itrland","tag-kyndryl"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125383"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127400,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125383\/revisions\/127400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}