By Ann All | Posted June 08, 2016
Another day, another discouraging report about web security. This time it's research from WhiteHat Security, a provider of web application security software, that found a large number of web apps are insecure. Most applications exhibit, on average, at least two serious vulnerabilities at any time, according to the report, which is based on aggregated scanning and remediation data obtained from applications that used WhiteHat's Sentinel service for application security testing in 2015.
In looking at the window of exposure, WhiteHat found that none of the 12 industries it reviewed did a very good job of resolving vulnerabilities in their web applications.
In three industries - insurance, energy and entertainment/media - about 30 percent of web apps are always vulnerable. Banking, financial services and technology fared somewhat worse, with their apps always vulnerable about 40 percent of the time.
Even worse were the health care, retail and education verticals, with apps always vulnerable about half the time. Apps are always vulnerable 57 percent of the time for the manufacturing and food/beverage industries. And at the scariest end of the spectrum, apps in IT are always vulnerable 60 percent of the time.
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OK, what is new about this...tell us something that we don't know. One needs to lock down ones system when ever web apps are running/connected...it is the only safe thing to do.
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