Cisco Annual Security Report Reveals Widening Gulf Between Perception and Reality of Cybersecurity Readiness - Seite 3

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John N. Stewart, senior vice president, chief security and trust officer, Cisco
"Security needs an all hands on deck approach, where everybody contributes, from the board room to individual users. We used to worry about DoS, now we also worry about data destruction. We once worried about IP theft, now we worry about critical services failure. Our adversaries are increasingly proficient, exploit our weaknesses and hide their attacks in plain sight. Security must provide protection across the full attack continuum and technology must be bought that is designed and built with that in mind. Online services must be run with resiliency in mind, and all of these moves must happen now to tip the scales and protect our future. It requires leadership, cooperation, and accountability like never seen before in our industry."

Jason Brvenik, Principal Engineer, Security Business Group, Cisco
"Attackers have become more proficient at taking advantage of security gaps. We observed that that 56% of all OpenSSL versions still remain vulnerable to Heartbleed and that major attacks are only leveraging 1% of high-urgency vulnerabilities at any given time. Despite this, we see less than half of the security teams surveyed using standard tools like patching and configuration management to help prevent security breaches. Even with leading security technology, excellence in process is required to protect organizations and users from increasingly sophisticated attacks and campaigns."

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• John N. Stewart video commentary on the Annual Security Report -- http://youtu.be/ioy5N5d3ugs
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