Only half (54 percent) of businesses are confident in their ability to verify and defend against an attack, according to a study by networking giant, Cisco. Cisco’s latest Annual Security Report concluded that this lack of confidence is mostly down to hackers becoming more nimble, resilient and persistent while businesses are struggling to keep up and mount adequate security defenses.
Patching and vulnerability management remain a pain point. The majority (92 per cent) of devices across the internet are running known vulnerabilities. A third (31 per cent) of all devices analyzed are no longer supported or maintained by the vendor. Examples in this category might include aging computers running Windows XP, for example.
