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Data storage, remote access and network administration most prevalent services exposing sensitive data; findings validate correlation between unsafe network services and prevalence of wider security issues in the digital supply chain
SALT LAKE CITY–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
Today RiskRecon, a Mastercard Company, and the Cyentia Institute published “Third-Party Security Signals: Exposing the reality of unsafe network services,” an in-depth study that examines the prevalence of unsafe network services exposed to the internet. The research found that 33% of companies within the digital supply chain expose common network services such as data storage, remote access and network administration to the internet. In addition, organizations that expose unsafe services to the internet also 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 strategic ways: the direct proportion of…
