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Security Threat Landscape Still Plagued by Known Issues, says HPTop ten vulnerabilities exploited in 2014 took advantage of known weaknesses in systems implemented years or even decades ago | ||
Bangalore, Karnataka, India HP today published the 2015 edition of its annual Cyber Risk Report, providing in-depth threat research and analysis around the most pressing security issues plaguing the enterprise during the previous year and indicating likely trends for 2015.
Authored by HP Security Research, the report examines the data indicating the most prevalent vulnerabilities that leave organizations open to security risks. This year’s report reveals that well-known issues and misconfigurations contributed to the most formidable threats in 2014.
“Many of the biggest security risks are issues we’ve known about for decades, leaving organizations unnecessarily exposed,” said Jyoti Prakash, Country Director, India and SAARC countries, HP Enterprise Security Products (ESP). “We can’t lose sight of defending against these known vulnerabilities by entrusting security to the next silver bullet technology; rather, organizations must employ fundamental security tactics to address known vulnerabilities and in turn, eliminate significant amounts of risk.” Highlights and key findings:
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Methodology:The HP Cyber Risk Report is published annually by HP Security Research, leveraging a number of internal and external sources to identify, research and analyze the findings, including the HP Zero Day Initiative, HP Fortify on Demand security assessments, HP Software Security Research and ReversingLabs. Additional information on the methodology can be found in the full report.
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