A third of companies are exposing unsafe network services to the internet

New research finds that 33 percent of companies within the digital supply chain expose common network services such as data storage, remote access and network administration to the internet. The study from RiskRecon and the Cyentia Institute also finds that organizations that expose unsafe services to the internet exhibit more critical security findings. The research is based on RiskRecon's assessment of millions of internet-facing systems across approximately 40,000 commercial and public institutions. Cyentia and RiskRecon analyzed the data in two ways, the direct proportion of internet-facing hosts running unsafe services, as well as the percentage of companies that expose unsafe services somewhere across their infrastructure. Within… [Continue Reading]