Vulnerable Remote Access & Perimeter Devices: a huge attack surface

guest · Aug 4, 2020

Vulnerable perimeter devices: a huge attack surface
August 4, 2020
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vulnerable-perimeter-devices-a-huge-attack-surface/

With the increase of critical gateway devices deployed to support off-premise work, companies across the world have to adapt to a new threat landscape where perimeter and remote access devices are now in the first line.

Companies lack visibility into the growing network of internet-connected services and devices that support the new work paradigm; and the avalanche of vulnerabilities reported for edge devices make tackling the new security challenge even more difficult.
Over 1 million devices
In research published today, digital threat management company RiskIQ found hundreds of thousands of fringe network or remote access solutions from Cisco, Microsoft, Citrix, or IBM, where high and critical severity security vulnerabilities were discovered.
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The researchers say that monitoring these new assets and the issues they’re vulnerable to requires “new type of technology that looks at an organization's digital presence from the outside-in.”

Even if fixes are available for security issues in these critical devices, attackers will keep scanning for vulnerable targets because they know that companies have a time to patch that represents a window of opportunity. Sometimes, it may take months until updates are applied.
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RiskIQ: Vulnerable Remote Access & Perimeter Devices

The Hidden Attack Surface That's Growing Out of Control
Recently, organizations have had to scramble to patch a host of dangerous security flaws in dozens of remote access and perimeter devices such as F5 Networks' BIG-IP product and Cisco's IOS XE devices. Already, there have been 18 of these high-to-critical vulnerabilities in these systems in 2020.

RiskIQ's vulnerability landscape report offers a high-level view of critical vulnerabilities in 12 widely used remote access and perimeter devices. The findings show that the rapidly increasing adoption of these devices amid the COVID-19 pandemic introduces a range of critical, rapidly proliferating vulnerabilities—of which nation-states are already taking advantage to attack organizations.
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