Web applications leave companies vulnerable to breaches

Insecure and outdated web applications are a core source of high-profile data breaches among FT 500 global companies according to new research from web security company High-Tech Bridge. The study reveals that abandoned, shadow and legacy web applications more or less nullify corporate cybersecurity spending and undermine compliance. The research took the 1,000 largest global companies as per the Financial Times: FT US 500 and FT Europe 500 and High-Tech Bridge performed a large-scale discovery and non-intrusive assessment of their external web and mobile applications, SSL certificates, web software and unprotected cloud storage. It found that the 500 largest US… [Continue Reading]