Unpatched Vulnerabilities Caused Breaches in 27% of Orgs, Finds Study

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Unpatched Vulnerabilities Caused Breaches in 27% of Orgs, Finds Study
June 3, 2019
https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-s...anagement/unpatched-vulnerabilities-breaches/

A Lack of Focus on Managing Vulnerabilities
Tripwire’s study revealed that many organizations could be doing more to manage their vulnerabilities. Supporting this conclusion, 27 percent of survey participants said their employer had suffered a data breach as the result of an unpatched vulnerability. The rate was even higher for European organizations at 34 percent.

Speed is key when it comes to network visibility. Unfortunately, many survey participants disclosed that their employers didn’t have it.
More than a fifth (21 percent) of IT security professionals told Tripwire that it took their organizations a matter of days to detect new IT assets. For 10 percent, it was months or longer, while 11 percent admitted that their employer lacked the ability to discover new hardware and software altogether.

Half of survey participants revealed that their employers had only enough resources to apply their program to high-severity vulnerabilities, while 16 percent of respondents said that vulnerability scans were conducted solely to meet compliance or other requirements.
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Tripwire 2019 Vulnerability Management Survey (PDF - 841 KB): https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/Tripwire-Dimensional-Research-VM-Survey.pdf

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