WhiteHat Security’s Website Security Statistics Report provides a one-of-a-kind perspective on the state of website security and the issues that organizations must address in order to conduct business online safely.
Website security is an ever-moving target. New website launches are common, new code is released constantly, new Web technologies are created and adopted every day; as a result, new attack techniques are frequently disclosed that can put every online business at risk. In order to stay protected, enterprises must receive timely information about how they can most efficiently defend their websites, gain visibility into the performance of their security programs, and learn how they compare with their industry peers. Obtaining these insights is crucial in order to stay ahead and truly improve enterprise website security.
To help, WhiteHat Security has been publishing its Website Security Statistics Report since 2006. This report is the only one that focuses exclusively on unknown vulnerabilities in custom Web applications, code that is unique to an organization, and found in real-world websites. The underlying data is hundreds of terabytes in size, comprises vulnerability assessment results from tens of thousands of websites across hundreds of the most well-known organizations, and collectively represents the largest and most accurate picture of website security available. Inside this report is information about the most prevalent vulnerabilities, how many get fixed, how long the fixes can take on average, and how every application security program may measurably improve. The report is organized by industry, and is accompanied by WhiteHat Security’s expert analysis and recommendations.
Through its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering, WhiteHat Sentinel, WhiteHat Security is uniquely positioned to deliver the depth of knowledge that organizations require to protect their brands, attain compliance, and avert costly breaches.
Web security is a moving target and enterprises need timely information about the latest attack trends, how they can best defend their websites, and visibility into their vulnerability lifecycle. Through its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering, WhiteHat Sentinel, WhiteHat Security is uniquely positioned to deliver the knowledge and solutions that organizations need to protect their brands, attain PCI compliance and avert costly breaches.
The WhiteHat Website Security Statistics Report provides a one-of-a-kind perspective on the state of website security and the issues that organizations must address to safely conduct business online. WhiteHat has been publishing the report, which highlights the top ten vulnerabilities, tracks vertical market trends and identifies new attack techniques, since 2006.
The WhiteHat Security report presents a statistical picture of current website vulnerabilities, accompanied by WhiteHat expert analysis and recommendations. WhiteHat’s report is the only one in the industry to focus solely on unknown vulnerabilities in custom Web applications, code unique to an organization,
In this report, we put this area of application security understanding to the test by measuring how various web programming languages and development frameworks actually perform in the field. To which classes of attack are they most prone, how often and for how long; and, how do they fare against popular alternatives? Is it really true that the most popular modern languages and frameworks yield similar results in production websites?
By analyzing the vulnerability assessment results of more than 30,000 websites under management with WhiteHat Sentinel, we begin to answer these questions. These answers may enable the application security community to ask better and deeper questions, which will eventually lead to more secure websites. Organizations deploying these technologies can have a closer look at particularly risk-prone areas. Software vendors may focus on areas that are found to be lacking. Developers can increase their familiarity with the strengths and weaknesses of their technology stack. All of this is vitally important because security must be baked into development frameworks and must be virtually transparent. Only then will application security progress be made.
This year WhiteHat SecurityTM celebrates its fteenth anniversary, and the eleventh year that we have produced the Web Applications Security Statistics Report. The stats shared in this report are based on the aggregation of all the scanning and remediation data obtained from applications that used the WhiteHat SentinelTM service for application security testing in 2015. As an early pioneer in the Application Security Market, WhiteHat has a large and unique collection of data to work with.
WhiteHat Security, the Web security company, today released the twelfth installment of the WhiteHat Security Website Security Statistics Report. The report reviewed serious vulnerabilities* in websites during the 2011 calendar year, examining the severity and duration of the most critical vulnerabilities from 7,000 websites across major vertical markets. Among the findings in the report, WhiteHat research suggests that the average number of serious vulnerabilities found per website per year in 2011 was 79, a substantial reduction from 230 in 2010 and down from 1,111 in 2007. Despite the significant improvement in the state of website security, organizational challenges in creating security programs that balance breadth of coverage and depth of testing leave large-scale attack surfaces or small, but very high-risk vulnerabilities open to attackers.
The report examined data from more than 7,000 websites across over 500 organizations that are continually assessed for vulnerabilities by WhiteHat Security’s family of Sentinel Services. This process provides a real-world look at website security across a range of vertical markets, including findings from the energy and non-profit verticals for the first time this year. The metrics provided serve as a foundation for improving enterprise application security online.
Ce rapport produit par WhiteHat en mai 2013 offre une vision pertinente des menaces web et des paramètres à prendre en compte pour assurer sécurité et disponibilité.
A detailed scenario of risks present in a proposed collaborative platform and the various steps involved with detailed risk assessment for the business environment.
Web security is a moving target and enterprises need timely information about the latest attack trends, how they can best defend their websites, and visibility into their vulnerability lifecycle. Through its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering, WhiteHat Sentinel, WhiteHat Security is uniquely positioned to deliver the knowledge and solutions that organizations need to protect their brands, attain PCI compliance and avert costly breaches.
The WhiteHat Website Security Statistics Report provides a one-of-a-kind perspective on the state of website security and the issues that organizations must address to safely conduct business online. WhiteHat has been publishing the report, which highlights the top ten vulnerabilities, tracks vertical market trends and identifies new attack techniques, since 2006.
The WhiteHat Security report presents a statistical picture of current website vulnerabilities, accompanied by WhiteHat expert analysis and recommendations. WhiteHat’s report is the only one in the industry to focus solely on unknown vulnerabilities in custom Web applications, code unique to an organization,
In this report, we put this area of application security understanding to the test by measuring how various web programming languages and development frameworks actually perform in the field. To which classes of attack are they most prone, how often and for how long; and, how do they fare against popular alternatives? Is it really true that the most popular modern languages and frameworks yield similar results in production websites?
By analyzing the vulnerability assessment results of more than 30,000 websites under management with WhiteHat Sentinel, we begin to answer these questions. These answers may enable the application security community to ask better and deeper questions, which will eventually lead to more secure websites. Organizations deploying these technologies can have a closer look at particularly risk-prone areas. Software vendors may focus on areas that are found to be lacking. Developers can increase their familiarity with the strengths and weaknesses of their technology stack. All of this is vitally important because security must be baked into development frameworks and must be virtually transparent. Only then will application security progress be made.
This year WhiteHat SecurityTM celebrates its fteenth anniversary, and the eleventh year that we have produced the Web Applications Security Statistics Report. The stats shared in this report are based on the aggregation of all the scanning and remediation data obtained from applications that used the WhiteHat SentinelTM service for application security testing in 2015. As an early pioneer in the Application Security Market, WhiteHat has a large and unique collection of data to work with.
WhiteHat Security, the Web security company, today released the twelfth installment of the WhiteHat Security Website Security Statistics Report. The report reviewed serious vulnerabilities* in websites during the 2011 calendar year, examining the severity and duration of the most critical vulnerabilities from 7,000 websites across major vertical markets. Among the findings in the report, WhiteHat research suggests that the average number of serious vulnerabilities found per website per year in 2011 was 79, a substantial reduction from 230 in 2010 and down from 1,111 in 2007. Despite the significant improvement in the state of website security, organizational challenges in creating security programs that balance breadth of coverage and depth of testing leave large-scale attack surfaces or small, but very high-risk vulnerabilities open to attackers.
The report examined data from more than 7,000 websites across over 500 organizations that are continually assessed for vulnerabilities by WhiteHat Security’s family of Sentinel Services. This process provides a real-world look at website security across a range of vertical markets, including findings from the energy and non-profit verticals for the first time this year. The metrics provided serve as a foundation for improving enterprise application security online.
Ce rapport produit par WhiteHat en mai 2013 offre une vision pertinente des menaces web et des paramètres à prendre en compte pour assurer sécurité et disponibilité.
A detailed scenario of risks present in a proposed collaborative platform and the various steps involved with detailed risk assessment for the business environment.
EMA surveyed IT and IT security respondents to learn how organizations are responding to the threat of bot attacks.
These slides based on the webinar from leading IT research firm Enterprise Management Associates provides highlights from this research.
A detailed analysis on one of the biggest data breaches in history...What JP Morgan Chase & Co did wrong and proposed mitigation techniques. The data breach at J.P. Morgan Chase is yet another example of how our most sensitive personal information is in danger.
.
Whitepaper | Cyber resilience in the age of digital transformationNexon Asia Pacific
We are living in an always-on world using different communications devices, systems and networks. As privacy and protecting one’s identity is becoming increasingly important, the task of protecting these devices, systems and networks from cyber attack is no longer an option, it is a necessity.
How close is your organization to being breached | Safe SecurityRahul Tyagi
Traditional methods are certainly limited in
their capabilities and this is easily proven by
the multitude of breaches businesses were a
victim of, across the globe. The 2020 Q3 Data
Breach QuickView Report revealed that the
number of records exposed in 2020 has
increased to 36 billion globally. The report
stated that there were 2,953 publicly
reported breaches in the first three quarters
of 2020 itself! 2020 is already named the
“worst year on record” by the end of Q2 in
terms of the total number of records
exposed. With the growing sophistication of
cyber-attacks and global damages related
to cybercrime reaching $6 trillion by 2021, we
need a solution that simplifies
cybersecurity.
To know more about breach probability visit : www.safe.security
Today, the delegation of risk decisions to the IT team
cannot be the only solution and has to be a shared
responsibility. The board and business executives are
expected to incorporate the management of cyber risk
as part of their business strategy since they are
accountable to stakeholders, regulators and
customers. For the CROs, CISOs, and Security and Risk
Management Professionals to be on the same page,
there has to be a single source of truth for
communicating the impact that cyber risk has on
business outcomes, in a language that everyone can
understand.
Big Iron to Big Data Analytics for Security, Compliance, and the MainframePrecisely
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) technologies and practices continue to expand across IT organizations to address security concerns and meet compliance mandates. However, in many of these organizations the mainframe remains an isolated technology platform. Security & compliance issues are addressed using old tools that are not effectively integrated into big data analytics platforms. In this webinar we discuss how to leverage mainframe (Big Iron) data sources into Big Data analytics platforms to address a variety of mainframe security challenges. Additionally, we cover:
• How to integrate IBM z/OS mainframe security data into an enterprise SIEM solution
• How to leverage IBM z/OS security data to detect threats in the mainframe environment using big data analytics
• Review some compliance uses cases that have been addressed using big iron to big data analytics
A CISO's Guide to Cyber Liability InsuranceSecureAuth
Cyber insurance is not new, in fact it has been around for more than 10 years. Still it remains a complicated issue with confusion about what’s covered and what isn’t. And with incidentals of data breaches rising, so are cyber insurance premiums themselves. One thing is clear: Companies will be breached at some point, if they haven’t been breached already and protecting your organization to minimize financial loss is critical.
This SlideShare by SecureAuth and SC Magazine, will discuss what security professionals need to know to ensure they are protected, including:
The current state of cyber insurance from a business operations perspective – what is covered and what isn’t
What insurance companies look for (ie. people, process, system) regarding your ability to response to an attack
How financial reimbursement does not address the real impact of a data breach
How adaptive access control can help minimize the potential loss of breached data, reduce CI premiums and keep you ahead of the game
We found that while cyber security was named as the topmost future tech adoption for organizations in 2019, cyber security is now the second tech priority for 2021 but with a higher budget than previously allocated. We also discovered that cloud security currently holds more importance with CISOs, CTOs and CIOs than data security and privacy.
If you think you’re safe because you have two-factor authentication protecting your applications and data, you might want to rethink your security strategy. While certain two-factor methods can be secure, others can be easily defeated leaving you vulnerable to attacks.
Learn why simple two-factor authentication is not enough and what you can do to make sure you are protected. We'll present a new approach to authentication, which continuously analyzes risk-factors including, geo-location, behavioural biometrics and threat intelligence, to ensure your users are who they say they are.
Inside The 10 Biggest and Boldest Insider Threats of 2019-2020Proofpoint
Insider threats come in all shapes and sizes and affect organizations across all industries and geographies. Understanding the motives behind them is key to defense.
One of the best ways to do this is to study some of the bold, headline-generating insider threats that have taken place recently, like the big Twitter debacle of July 2020. This is just one example of what has become a very common problem.
With malware attacks growing more sophisticated, swift, and dangerous by the day — and billions of dollars spent to combat them — surprisingly few organizations have a grip on the problem. Only 20 percent of security professionals surveyed by Information Security Media Group (ISMG) rated their incident response program “very effective.” Nearly two-thirds struggle to detect APTs, limiting their ability to defend today’s most pernicious threats. In addition, more than 60 percent struggle with the speed of detection, and more than 40 percent struggle with the accuracy of detection. Those shortcomings give attackers more time to steal data and embed their malware deeper into targeted systems. For the latest threat intelligence reports, visit https://www.fireeye.com/current-threats/threat-intelligence-reports.html.
Convince your board - cyber attack prevention is better than cureDave James
The business case for cyber attack prevention for organisations concerned about the rise in cyber crime and the risk to their data. Includes cyber security tips and resources.
The Four(ish) Appsec Metrics You Can’t IgnoreVeracode
Which metrics should we use? You might expect an “it depends” answer, but there are some metrics that are important for any application security program, regardless of audience or goals. We’ll take a look at a few of them in this post.
2020 Cost of Insider Threats Global Report with Dr. Larry Ponemon, Chairman ...Proofpoint
Ponemon 2020 Cost Report for Insider Threats: Key Takeaways and Trends How much could Insider Threats cost your company annually? $11.45M, according to a new report from the Ponemon Institute, up from $8.76M in 2018. Ponemon’s 2020 Cost of Insider Threats Report surveyed hundreds of IT security professionals across North America, EMEA, and APAC, covering multi-year trends that prove the significance of this rapidly growing threat type. Join Larry Ponemon, Chairman and Founder of the Ponemon Institute, and Josh Epstein, CMO at ObserveIT a Proofpoint company, in a webinar to break down the key findings of the 2020 report. We will cover: ● What kinds of Insider Threats cost organizations the most ● How investigations are driving up the cost-per-incident for companies ● Which organizations, industries, and regions are being targeted the most ● How companies can potentially save millions by using a dedicated Insider Threat management approach.
Selling Your Organization on Application SecurityVeracode
You’ve studied the best practices, charted out your course and are ready to embark on your application security journey. But there is still one roadblock that could derail your entire program if you ignore it – getting buy-in from the rest of your company. You see, application security is unlike other forms of security in that it directly impacts the productivity of multiple teams outside the IT and security teams. Who are the groups you need to work with? At what point in the planning and execution stages should you engage with these teams? And why are they so concerned with your application security strategy? The answer to these questions can be found in this short, yet informative presentation. You'll learn about the teams you need to work with, and how to best communicate and work with them to ensure the success of your application security program.
WhiteHat Security "Website Security Statistics Report" FULL (Q1'09)Jeremiah Grossman
The WhiteHat Website Security Statistics Report provides a one-of-a-kind perspective on the state of website security and the issues that organizations must address to avert attack. WhiteHat has been publishing the report, which highlights the top ten vulnerabilities, vertical market trends and new attack vectors, since 2006.
The WhiteHat report presents a statistical picture of current website vulnerabilities, accompanied by WhiteHat expert analysis and recommendations. WhiteHat’s report is the only one in the industry to focus solely on unknown vulnerabilities in custom Web applications, code unique to an organization, within real-world websites.
WhiteHat issues continued installments of the Website Security Statistics Report on a quarterly basis. To ensure the report remains useful and relevant, WhiteHat incorporates feedback and ideas from leading industry thought leaders and influencers. Based on feedback already received, the latest report includes: comparing vulnerability prevalence by severity, top ten vulnerability classes sorted by percentage likelihood and an outline of the types of technology typically encountered during WhiteHat vulnerability assessments mapped with the associated vulnerability percentage breakdown.
5 STEP PROCESS TO MOBILE RISK MANAGEMENT
1/ Understand how employees want to use Mobile Devices and Applications
2/ Identify potential threats
3/ Define the impact to the business based on probable threat scenarios
4/ Develop policies and procedures to protect the business to an acceptable level
5/ Implement manageable procedural and technical controls, and monitor their effectiveness
EMA surveyed IT and IT security respondents to learn how organizations are responding to the threat of bot attacks.
These slides based on the webinar from leading IT research firm Enterprise Management Associates provides highlights from this research.
A detailed analysis on one of the biggest data breaches in history...What JP Morgan Chase & Co did wrong and proposed mitigation techniques. The data breach at J.P. Morgan Chase is yet another example of how our most sensitive personal information is in danger.
.
Whitepaper | Cyber resilience in the age of digital transformationNexon Asia Pacific
We are living in an always-on world using different communications devices, systems and networks. As privacy and protecting one’s identity is becoming increasingly important, the task of protecting these devices, systems and networks from cyber attack is no longer an option, it is a necessity.
How close is your organization to being breached | Safe SecurityRahul Tyagi
Traditional methods are certainly limited in
their capabilities and this is easily proven by
the multitude of breaches businesses were a
victim of, across the globe. The 2020 Q3 Data
Breach QuickView Report revealed that the
number of records exposed in 2020 has
increased to 36 billion globally. The report
stated that there were 2,953 publicly
reported breaches in the first three quarters
of 2020 itself! 2020 is already named the
“worst year on record” by the end of Q2 in
terms of the total number of records
exposed. With the growing sophistication of
cyber-attacks and global damages related
to cybercrime reaching $6 trillion by 2021, we
need a solution that simplifies
cybersecurity.
To know more about breach probability visit : www.safe.security
Today, the delegation of risk decisions to the IT team
cannot be the only solution and has to be a shared
responsibility. The board and business executives are
expected to incorporate the management of cyber risk
as part of their business strategy since they are
accountable to stakeholders, regulators and
customers. For the CROs, CISOs, and Security and Risk
Management Professionals to be on the same page,
there has to be a single source of truth for
communicating the impact that cyber risk has on
business outcomes, in a language that everyone can
understand.
Big Iron to Big Data Analytics for Security, Compliance, and the MainframePrecisely
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) technologies and practices continue to expand across IT organizations to address security concerns and meet compliance mandates. However, in many of these organizations the mainframe remains an isolated technology platform. Security & compliance issues are addressed using old tools that are not effectively integrated into big data analytics platforms. In this webinar we discuss how to leverage mainframe (Big Iron) data sources into Big Data analytics platforms to address a variety of mainframe security challenges. Additionally, we cover:
• How to integrate IBM z/OS mainframe security data into an enterprise SIEM solution
• How to leverage IBM z/OS security data to detect threats in the mainframe environment using big data analytics
• Review some compliance uses cases that have been addressed using big iron to big data analytics
A CISO's Guide to Cyber Liability InsuranceSecureAuth
Cyber insurance is not new, in fact it has been around for more than 10 years. Still it remains a complicated issue with confusion about what’s covered and what isn’t. And with incidentals of data breaches rising, so are cyber insurance premiums themselves. One thing is clear: Companies will be breached at some point, if they haven’t been breached already and protecting your organization to minimize financial loss is critical.
This SlideShare by SecureAuth and SC Magazine, will discuss what security professionals need to know to ensure they are protected, including:
The current state of cyber insurance from a business operations perspective – what is covered and what isn’t
What insurance companies look for (ie. people, process, system) regarding your ability to response to an attack
How financial reimbursement does not address the real impact of a data breach
How adaptive access control can help minimize the potential loss of breached data, reduce CI premiums and keep you ahead of the game
We found that while cyber security was named as the topmost future tech adoption for organizations in 2019, cyber security is now the second tech priority for 2021 but with a higher budget than previously allocated. We also discovered that cloud security currently holds more importance with CISOs, CTOs and CIOs than data security and privacy.
If you think you’re safe because you have two-factor authentication protecting your applications and data, you might want to rethink your security strategy. While certain two-factor methods can be secure, others can be easily defeated leaving you vulnerable to attacks.
Learn why simple two-factor authentication is not enough and what you can do to make sure you are protected. We'll present a new approach to authentication, which continuously analyzes risk-factors including, geo-location, behavioural biometrics and threat intelligence, to ensure your users are who they say they are.
Inside The 10 Biggest and Boldest Insider Threats of 2019-2020Proofpoint
Insider threats come in all shapes and sizes and affect organizations across all industries and geographies. Understanding the motives behind them is key to defense.
One of the best ways to do this is to study some of the bold, headline-generating insider threats that have taken place recently, like the big Twitter debacle of July 2020. This is just one example of what has become a very common problem.
With malware attacks growing more sophisticated, swift, and dangerous by the day — and billions of dollars spent to combat them — surprisingly few organizations have a grip on the problem. Only 20 percent of security professionals surveyed by Information Security Media Group (ISMG) rated their incident response program “very effective.” Nearly two-thirds struggle to detect APTs, limiting their ability to defend today’s most pernicious threats. In addition, more than 60 percent struggle with the speed of detection, and more than 40 percent struggle with the accuracy of detection. Those shortcomings give attackers more time to steal data and embed their malware deeper into targeted systems. For the latest threat intelligence reports, visit https://www.fireeye.com/current-threats/threat-intelligence-reports.html.
Convince your board - cyber attack prevention is better than cureDave James
The business case for cyber attack prevention for organisations concerned about the rise in cyber crime and the risk to their data. Includes cyber security tips and resources.
The Four(ish) Appsec Metrics You Can’t IgnoreVeracode
Which metrics should we use? You might expect an “it depends” answer, but there are some metrics that are important for any application security program, regardless of audience or goals. We’ll take a look at a few of them in this post.
2020 Cost of Insider Threats Global Report with Dr. Larry Ponemon, Chairman ...Proofpoint
Ponemon 2020 Cost Report for Insider Threats: Key Takeaways and Trends How much could Insider Threats cost your company annually? $11.45M, according to a new report from the Ponemon Institute, up from $8.76M in 2018. Ponemon’s 2020 Cost of Insider Threats Report surveyed hundreds of IT security professionals across North America, EMEA, and APAC, covering multi-year trends that prove the significance of this rapidly growing threat type. Join Larry Ponemon, Chairman and Founder of the Ponemon Institute, and Josh Epstein, CMO at ObserveIT a Proofpoint company, in a webinar to break down the key findings of the 2020 report. We will cover: ● What kinds of Insider Threats cost organizations the most ● How investigations are driving up the cost-per-incident for companies ● Which organizations, industries, and regions are being targeted the most ● How companies can potentially save millions by using a dedicated Insider Threat management approach.
Selling Your Organization on Application SecurityVeracode
You’ve studied the best practices, charted out your course and are ready to embark on your application security journey. But there is still one roadblock that could derail your entire program if you ignore it – getting buy-in from the rest of your company. You see, application security is unlike other forms of security in that it directly impacts the productivity of multiple teams outside the IT and security teams. Who are the groups you need to work with? At what point in the planning and execution stages should you engage with these teams? And why are they so concerned with your application security strategy? The answer to these questions can be found in this short, yet informative presentation. You'll learn about the teams you need to work with, and how to best communicate and work with them to ensure the success of your application security program.
WhiteHat Security "Website Security Statistics Report" FULL (Q1'09)Jeremiah Grossman
The WhiteHat Website Security Statistics Report provides a one-of-a-kind perspective on the state of website security and the issues that organizations must address to avert attack. WhiteHat has been publishing the report, which highlights the top ten vulnerabilities, vertical market trends and new attack vectors, since 2006.
The WhiteHat report presents a statistical picture of current website vulnerabilities, accompanied by WhiteHat expert analysis and recommendations. WhiteHat’s report is the only one in the industry to focus solely on unknown vulnerabilities in custom Web applications, code unique to an organization, within real-world websites.
WhiteHat issues continued installments of the Website Security Statistics Report on a quarterly basis. To ensure the report remains useful and relevant, WhiteHat incorporates feedback and ideas from leading industry thought leaders and influencers. Based on feedback already received, the latest report includes: comparing vulnerability prevalence by severity, top ten vulnerability classes sorted by percentage likelihood and an outline of the types of technology typically encountered during WhiteHat vulnerability assessments mapped with the associated vulnerability percentage breakdown.
5 STEP PROCESS TO MOBILE RISK MANAGEMENT
1/ Understand how employees want to use Mobile Devices and Applications
2/ Identify potential threats
3/ Define the impact to the business based on probable threat scenarios
4/ Develop policies and procedures to protect the business to an acceptable level
5/ Implement manageable procedural and technical controls, and monitor their effectiveness
Complicate, detect, respond: stopping cyber attacks with identity analyticsCA Technologies
Corporate boards and audit committees are taking a greater interest in cybersecurity and plans to mitigate related risks. Headline-grabbing data breaches are prevalent. Shareholders and oversight bodies are concerned about the potential impact to their organizations’ financial well-being and reputation.
Today, cyber adversaries are well-organized and well-funded, and they are more able to enter commercial and governmental organizations than ever before. No company has the capability and capacity to prevent all attacks. The only way to operate securely is to assume a breach has occurred, is occurring and will occur. This requires “complicate, detect and respond” mindset when developing and automating controls.
For more information, please visit http://cainc.to/Nv2VOe
Cyber-attacks are an alarming threat to all types of businesses & organizations.The risk of a cyber-attack is not just a risk to your company but also to your privacy.Hence, cybersecurity is crucial for every business. Cybersecurity protects critical data from cyber attackers. This includes sensitive data, governmental and industry information, personal information, personally identifiable information (PII), intellectual property, and protected health information (PHI). If you are looking for tools to fight against cyber threats, then Techwave’s tools & technologies with adequate controls will help your organization stay protected.
Cyber-attacks are an alarming threat to all types of businesses & organizations.The risk of a cyber-attack is not just a risk to your company but also to your privacy.Hence, cybersecurity is crucial for every business. Cybersecurity protects critical data from cyber attackers. This includes sensitive data, governmental and industry information, personal information, personally identifiable information (PII), intellectual property, and protected health information (PHI). If you are looking for tools to fight against cyber threats, then Techwave’s tools & technologies with adequate controls will help your organization stay protected.
With cybercrime (like denial of service, malware, phishing, and SQL injection) looming large in our digitized world, penetration testing - and code and application level security testing (SAST and DAST) - are essential for organizations to identify security loopholes in applications and beyond. We provide a guide to the salient standards and techniques for full-spectrum testing to safeguard your data - and reputation.
Five principles for improving your cyber securityWGroup
Corporate assets have been shifting from physical assets to virtual assets over the past 20 years. This trend has been accompanied by a corresponding increase in the vulnerability of intangible assets, leading to a greater general awareness of corporate cyber security risks. The alteration or destruction of a company’s data can result in harm to reputation, loss of public confidence, disruption to infrastructure, and legal sanctions. The security risk can adversely impact a company’s stock price and competitive position in the marketplace. In this document, WGroup cites 5 principles that will help improve a business's cyber security. The 5 principles are risk identification, risk management, legal implications, technical expertise, and expectations.
SpringOne 2021
Session Title: Treating Security Like a Product
Speakers: Alex Barbato, Solutions Architect at VMware; Hannah Hunt, Chief Product and Innovation Officer at U.S. Army Software Factory
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Four Ways Businesses Can Secure Themselves from Digital Supply Chain Attacks.pdfEnterprise Insider
A breach at any point in the digital supply chain can quickly compromise services, consumers, users, and brand reputation. To combat digital supply chain threats, businesses must be proactive in addressing vulnerabilities across their whole external attack surface, including third parties.
BIZGrowth Strategies — Cybersecurity Special Edition 2023CBIZ, Inc.
As cybercriminals continue to advance and evolve, a stagnant cyber risk management approach is simply not an option. Further, the prevalence of cyber breaches means cybersecurity is not solely an IT concern. It takes a robust set of processes and people from across your organization, working together toward a common goal. We offer fresh insights to help protect your organization from cyberthreats in multiple operational areas. Articles include:
- How Cybercriminals Are Weaponizing Artificial Intelligence
- Employee Benefits Cyber Risk Exposure Scorecard
- Closing the Security Gap: Managing Vendor Cyber Risk
- Retirement Plan Sponsor Cybersecurity Checklist
- Protect Your Digital Frontline With Employee Training
Want to know how to secure your web apps from cyber-attacks? Looking to know the Best Web Application Security Best Practices? Check this article, we delve into six essential web application security best practices that are important for safeguarding your web applications and preserving the sanctity of your valuable data.
What CIOs Need To Tell Their Boards About Cyber SecurityKaryl Scott
Companies are under increasing risks of breaches, theft of intellectual property and erosion of customer trust. CIOs and CISOs need to be able to explain to executive management what's being done to shore up their company's security strategy and defenses.
There is a serious misalignment of interests between Application Security vulnerability assessment vendors and their customers. Vendors are incentivized to report everything they possible can, even issues that rarely matter. On the other hand, customers just want the vulnerability reports that are likely to get them hacked. Every finding beyond that is a waste of time, money, and energy, which is precisely what’s happening every day.
How to Determine Your Attack Surface in the Healthcare SectorJeremiah Grossman
Do you know what an asset inventory is, why it's important, and how it can protect you from cybersecurity vulnerabilities?
In this webinar, you can expect to learn:
- How to prepare yourself and your staff against cybersecurity threats
- What an asset inventory is and why it's the next big thing in information security
- How to identify all your company's Internet-connected assets and which need to be defended
- Why keeping an up-to-date asset inventory is important
- How to obtain your own attack surface map
Exploring the Psychological Mechanisms used in Ransomware Splash ScreensJeremiah Grossman
The present study examined a selection of 76 ransomware splash screens collected from a variety of sources. These splash screens were analysed according to surface information, including aspects of visual appearance, the use of language, cultural icons, payment and payment types. The results from the current study showed that, whilst there was a wide variation in the construction of ransomware splash screens, there was a good degree of commonality, particularly in terms of the structure and use of key aspects of social engineering used to elicit payment from the victims. There was the emergence of a sub-set of ransomware that, in the context of this report, was termed ‘Cuckoo’ ransomware. This type of attack often purported to be from an official source requesting payment for alleged transgressions.
What the Kidnapping & Ransom Economy Teaches Us About RansomwareJeremiah Grossman
Ransomware is center stage, as campaigns are practically guaranteed financial gain. Cyber-criminals profit hundreds of millions of dollars by selling our data back to us. If you look closely, the ransomware economic dynamics closely follow the real-world kidnapping and ransom industry. We’ll explore the eerie similarities, where ransomware is headed, and strategies we can bring to the fight.
What the Kidnapping & Ransom Economy Teaches Us About RansomwareJeremiah Grossman
Ransomware is center stage, as campaigns are practically guaranteed financial gain. Cyber-criminals profit hundreds of millions of dollars by selling our data back to us. If you look closely, the ransomware economic dynamics closely follow the real-world kidnapping and ransom industry. We’ll explore the eerie similarities, where ransomware is headed, and strategies we can bring to the fight.
In the past two decades of tech booms, busts, and bubbles, two things have not changed - hackers are still nding ways to breach security measures in place, and the endpoint remains the primary target. And now, with cloud and mobile computing, endpoint devices have become the new enterprise security perimeter, so there is even more pressure to lock them down.
Companies are deploying piles of software on the endpoint to secure it - antivirus, anti- malware, desktop rewalls, intrusion detection, vulnerability management, web ltering, anti-spam, and the list goes on. Yet with all of the solutions in place, high pro le companies are still being breached. The recent attacks on large retail and hospitality organizations are prime examples, where hackers successfully used credit-card-stealing-malware targeting payment servers to collect customer credit card information.
Ransomware is Here: Fundamentals Everyone Needs to KnowJeremiah Grossman
If you’re an IT professional, you probably know at least the basics of ransomware. Instead of using malware or an exploit to exfiltrate PII from an enterprise, bad actors instead find valuable data and encrypt it. Unless you happen to have an NSA-caliber data center at your disposal to break the encryption, you must pay your attacker in cold, hard bitcoins—or else wave goodbye to your PII. Those assumptions aren’t wrong, but they also don’t tell the whole picture.
During this event we’ll discuss topics such as:
Why Ransomware is Exploding
The growth of ransomware, as opposed to garden-variety malware, is enormous. Hackers have found that they can directly monetize the data they encrypt, which eliminates the time-consuming process of selling stolen data on the Darknet. In addition, the use of ransomware requires little in the way of technical skill—because attackers don’t need to get root on a victim’s machine.
Who the Real Targets Are
Two years ago, the most newsworthy victims of ransomware were various police departments. This year, everyone is buzzing about hospitals. Is this a deliberate pattern? Probably not. Enterprises are so ill-prepared for ransomware that attackers have a green field to wreak havoc. Until the industry shapes up, bad actors will target ransomware indiscriminately.
Where Ransomware Stumbles
Although ransomware is nearly impossible to dislodge when employed correctly, you may be surprised to find that not all bad actors have the skill to do it. Even if ransomware targets your network, you may learn that your attackers have used extremely weak encryption—or that they’ve encrypted files that are entirely non-critical.
As far as ransomware is concerned, forewarned is forearmed. Once you know how attackers deliver ransomware, who they’re likely to attack, and the weaknesses in the ransomware deployment model, you’ll be able to understand how to protect your enterprise.
Where Flow Charts Don’t Go -- Website Security Statistics Report (2015)Jeremiah Grossman
WhiteHat Security’s Website Security Statistics Report provides a one-of-a-kind perspective on the state of website security and the issues that organizations must address in order to conduct business online safely.
Website security is an ever-moving target. New website launches are common, new code is released constantly, new web technologies are created and adopted every day; as a result, new attack techniques are frequently disclosed that can put every online business at risk. In order to stay protected, enterprises must receive timely information about how they
can most efficiently defend their websites, gain visibility into
the performance of their security programs, and learn how they compare with their industry peers. Obtaining these insights
is crucial in order to stay ahead and truly improve enterprise website security.
To help, WhiteHat Security has been publishing its Website Security Statistics Report since 2006. This report is the only one that focuses exclusively on unknown vulnerabilities in custom web applications, code that is unique to an organization, and found in real-world websites. The underlying data is hundreds of terabytes in size, comprises vulnerability assessment results from tens of thousands of websites across hundreds of the most well- known organizations, and collectively represents the largest and most accurate picture of website security available. Inside this report is information about the most prevalent vulnerabilities, how many get fixed, how long the fixes can take on average, and how every application security program may measurably improve. The report is organized by industry, and is accompanied by WhiteHat Security’s expert analysis and recommendations.
No More Snake Oil: Why InfoSec Needs Security GuaranteesJeremiah Grossman
Ever notice how everything in InfoSec is sold “as is”? No guarantees, no warrantees, no return policies. For some reason in InfoSec, providing customers with a form of financial coverage for their investment is seen as gimmicky, but the tides and times are changing. This talk discusses use cases on why guarantees are a must have and how guarantees benefit customers as well as InfoSec as a whole.
In this report, we put this area of application security understanding to the test by measuring how various web programming languages and development frameworks actually perform in the field. To which classes of attack are they most prone, how often and for how long; and, how do they fare against popular alternatives? Is it really true that the most popular modern languages and frameworks yield similar results in production websites?
By analyzing the vulnerability assessment results of more than 30,000 websites under management with WhiteHat Sentinel, we begin to answer these questions. These answers may enable the application security community to ask better and deeper questions, which will eventually lead to more secure websites. Organizations deploying these technologies can have a closer look at particularly risk-prone areas. Software vendors may focus on areas that are found to be lacking. Developers can increase their familiarity with the strengths and weaknesses of their technology stack. All of this is vitally important because security must be baked into development frameworks and must be virtually transparent. Only then will application security progress be made.
http://blackhat.com/us-13/briefings.html#Grossman
Online advertising networks can be a web hacker’s best friend. For mere pennies per thousand impressions (that means browsers) there are service providers who allow you to broadly distribute arbitrary javascript -- even malicious javascript! You are SUPPOSED to use this “feature” to show ads, to track users, and get clicks, but that doesn’t mean you have to abide. Absolutely nothing prevents spending $10, $100, or more to create a massive javascript-driven browser botnet instantly. The real-world power is spooky cool. We know, because we tested it… in-the-wild.
With a few lines of HTML5 and javascript code we’ll demonstrate just how you can easily commandeer browsers to perform DDoS attacks, participate in email spam campaigns, crack hashes and even help brute-force passwords. Put simply, instruct browsers to make HTTP requests they didn’t intend, even something as well-known as Cross-Site Request Forgery. With CSRF, no zero-days or malware is required. Oh, and there is no patch. The Web is supposed to work this way. Also nice, when the user leaves the page, our code vanishes. No traces. No tracks.
Before leveraging advertising networks, the reason this attack scenario didn’t worry many people is because it has always been difficult to scale up, which is to say, simultaneously control enough browsers (aka botnets) to reach critical mass. Previously, web hackers tried poisoning search engine results, phishing users via email, link spamming Facebook, Twitter and instant messages, Cross-Site Scripting attacks, publishing rigged open proxies, and malicious browser plugins. While all useful methods in certain scenarios, they lack simplicity, invisibility, and most importantly -- scale. That’s what we want! At a moment’s notice, we will show how it is possible to run javascript on an impressively large number of browsers all at once and no one will be the wiser. Today this is possible, and practical.
http://blog.whitehatsec.com/top-ten-web-hacking-techniques-of-2012/
Recorded Webinar: https://www.whitehatsec.com/webinar/whitehat_webinar_march2713.html
Every year the security community produces a stunning amount of new Web hacking techniques that are published in various white papers, blog posts, magazine articles, mailing list emails, conference presentations, etc. Within the thousands of pages are the latest ways to attack websites, Web browsers, Web proxies, and their mobile platform equivilents. Beyond individual vulnerabilities with CVE numbers or system compromises, here we are solely focused on new and creative methods of Web-based attack. Now it its seventh year, The Top Ten Web Hacking Techniques list encourages information sharing, provides a centralized knowledge-base, and recognizes researchers who contribute excellent work. Past Top Tens and the number of new attack techniques discovered in each year:
Web Breaches in 2011-“This is Becoming Hourly News and Totally Ridiculous"Jeremiah Grossman
In 2011, attitude towards hacks shifted from "It happens," to "It is happening.” A poorly coded website and web application is all that’s needed to wreak havoc – expensive firewall, pervasive anti-virus and multi-factor authentication be damned. But what is possible? What types of attacks and attackers should we be mindful of? This presentation will show the real risks in a post-2011 Internet.
video demos: http://whitehatsec.com/home/assets/videos/Top10WebHacks_Webinar031711.zip
Many notable and new Web hacking techniques were revealed in 2010. During this presentation, Jeremiah Grossman will describe the technical details of the top hacks from 2010, as well as some of the prevalent security issues emerging in 2011. Attendees will be treated to a step-by-step guided tour of the newest threats targeting today's corporate websites and enterprise users.
The top attacks in 2010 include:
• 'Padding Oracle' Crypto Attack
• Evercookie
• Hacking Auto-Complete
• Attacking HTTPS with Cache Injection
• Bypassing CSRF protections with ClickJacking and HTTP Parameter Pollution
• Universal XSS in IE8
• HTTP POST DoS
• JavaSnoop
• CSS History Hack In Firefox Without JavaScript for Intranet Portscanning
• Java Applet DNS Rebinding
Mr. Grossman will then briefly identify real-world examples of each of these vulnerabilities in action, outlining how the issue occurs, and what preventative measures can be taken. With that knowledge, he will strategize what defensive solutions will have the most impact.
Website attacks continue to prevail despite the best efforts of enterprises to fight them. Websites are an ongoing business concern and security must be assured all the time, not just at a point in time. And yet, most websites were exposed to at least one serious vulnerability every day of 2010, leaving valuable corporate and customer date at risk. Why?
In this report, Jeremiah will explore a new way to measure website security, Windows of Exposure, that tracks an organization’s current and historical website security posture. Window of Exposure is a useful combination of vulnerability prevalence, how long vulnerabilities take to get fixed, and the percentage of them that are remediated. By carefully tracking these metrics, an organization can determine where resources would be best invested.
Using data from WhiteHat’s 11th Website Security Statistics Report, based on assessments of over 3,000 websites, Grossman will reveal the most secure (and insecure) vertical markets and the Windows of Exposure of each. Find out how your industry ranks, and the top ten vulnerabilities plaguing your peers. Learn how to determine which metrics are critical to increasing their remediation rates, thereby limiting their Window of Exposure. The good news is that companies that take this approach are increasing remediation rates by 5 percent per year.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
2. WEBSITE SECURITY STATISTICS REPORT | MAY 20132
INTRODUCTION
WhiteHat Security’s Website Security Statistics Report provides a one-of-a-kind perspective on the state of
website security and the issues that organizations must address in order to conduct business online safely.
Website security is an ever-moving target. New website launches are common, new code is released
constantly, new Web technologies are created and adopted every day; as a result, new attack techniques are
frequently disclosed that can put every online business at risk. In order to stay protected, enterprises must
receive timely information about how they can most efficiently defend their websites, gain visibility into the
performance of their security programs, and learn how they compare with their industry peers. Obtaining
these insights is crucial in order to stay ahead and truly improve enterprise website security.
To help, WhiteHat Security has been publishing its Website Security Statistics Report since 2006. This report
is the only one that focuses exclusively on unknown vulnerabilities in custom Web applications, code that
is unique to an organization, and found in real-world websites. The underlying data is hundreds of terabytes
in size, comprises vulnerability assessment results from tens of thousands of websites across hundreds of the
most well-known organizations, and collectively represents the largest and most accurate picture of website
security available. Inside this report is information about the most prevalent vulnerabilities, how many get
fixed, how long the fixes can take on average, and how every application security program may measurably
improve. The report is organized by industry, and is accompanied by WhiteHat Security’s expert analysis and
recommendations.
Through its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering, WhiteHat Sentinel, WhiteHat Security is uniquely positioned
to deliver the depth of knowledge that organizations require to protect their brands, attain compliance, and
avert costly breaches.
ABOUT WHITEHAT SECURITY
Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, WhiteHat Security provides end-to-end
solutions for Web security. The company’s cloud website vulnerability management platform and leading
security engineers turn verified security intelligence into actionable insights for customers. Through a
combination of core products and strategic partnerships, WhiteHat Security provides complete Web security
at a scale and accuracy unmatched in the industry. WhiteHat Sentinel, the company’s flagship product line,
currently manages more than 15,000 websites – including sites in the most regulated industries, such as top
e-commerce, financial services and healthcare companies.
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2007
1000
800
400
600
200
2008 2009 2009 2010 2011
AT A GLANCE:
THE CURRENT STATE OF WEBSITE SECURITY
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Cross-Site Scripting
Information Leakage
Content Spoofing
Cross-Site Request Forgery
Brute Force
Insufficient Transport Layer Protection
Insufficient Authorization
SQL
Other
43%
11%
7%
12%
13%
injection
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C-level executives, managers, and software developers often ask their security teams, “How are
we doing? Are we safe, are we secure?” The real thing they may be asking for is a sense of how
the organization’s current security posture compares to their peers or competitors. They want
to know if the organization is leading, falling way behind, or is somewhere in between with
respect to their security posture. The answers to that question are extremely helpful for progress
tracking and goal setting.
What many do not first consider is that some organizations (or particular websites) are ‘targets
of opportunity,’ while others are ‘targets of choice.’ Targets of opportunity are breached when
their security posture is weaker than the average organization (in their industry) – and they get
unlucky in the total pool of potential victims. Targets of choice possess some type of unique
and valuable information, or perhaps a reputation or brand that is particularly attractive to a
motivated attacker. The attackers know precisely whom – or what – they want to penetrate.
Here’s the thing: since ‘100% security’ is an unrealistic goal – mostly because it is flatly
impossible, and the attempt is prohibitively expensive and for many completely unnecessary
– it is imperative for every organization to determine if they most likely represent a target of
opportunity or choice. In doing so an organization may establish and measure against a “secure
enough” bar.
If an organization is a target of opportunity, a goal of being just above average with respect to
website security among peers is reasonable. The bad guy will generally prefer to attack weaker,
and therefore easier to breach, targets. On the other hand, if an organization is a target of
choice, that organization must elevate its website security posture to a point where an attacker’s
efforts are detectable, preventable, and in case of a compromise, survivable. This is due to the
fact that an adversary will spend whatever time is necessary looking for gaps in the defenses to
exploit.
Whether an organization is a target of choice or a target of opportunity, the following Industry
Scorecards have been prepared to help organizations to visualize how its security posture
compares to its peers (provided they know their own internal metrics, of course).
INDUSTRY SCORECARDS
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MOST COMMON
VULNERABILITIES
AT A GLANCE
EXPOSURE AND CURRENT DEFENSE
PERCENT OF SERIOUS*
VULNERABILITIES
THAT HAVE BEEN FIXED
AVERAGE TIME
TO FIX
PERCENT OF ANALYZED
SITES WITH A SERIOUS*
VULNERABILITY
AVERAGE NUMBER OF
SERIOUS* VULNERABILITIES
PER SITE PER YEAR
81%
54%
107
DAYS
11
Cross-Site
Scripting*
Information
Leakage*
Content
Spoofing*
Cross-Site
Request Forgery*
Brute Force* Fingerprinting* Insufficient
Authorization*
30%
20%
10% 26% 21% 9% 9% 8% 8% 5%
Banking Industry ScorecardApril 2013
24% 33% 9% 11% 24%
THE CURRENT
STATE OF
WEBSITE SECURITY
TOP SEVEN
VULNERABILITY
CLASSES
CURRENT APPLICATION SECURITY BEHAVIORS AND CONTROLS
USED BY ORGANIZATIONS
*The percent of sites that had at least one example of...
*Serious vulnerabilities are defined as those in which an attacker could take control over all, or a part, of a website, compromise user accounts, access sensitive data or violate compliance requirements.
DAYS OVER A YEAR THAT A SITE IS EXPOSED TO SERIOUS* VULNERABILITIES
Programmers receive instructor led or computer-based software security training
Applications contain a library or framework that centralizes and enforces security controls
Perform Static Code Analysis on their website(s) underlying applications
Web Application Firewall Deployed
Transactional / Anti-Fraud Monitoring System Deployed
80%
100%
60%
40%
20% 57% 29%57%29% 71%
24% Always Vulnerable
33% Frequently Vulnerable 271-364 days a year
9% Regularly Vulnerable 151-270 days a year
11% Occasionally Vulnerable 31-150 days a year
Rarely Vulnerable 30 days or less a year
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MOST COMMON
VULNERABILITIES
AT A GLANCE
EXPOSURE AND CURRENT DEFENSE
PERCENT OF SERIOUS*
VULNERABILITIES
THAT HAVE BEEN FIXED
AVERAGE TIME
TO FIX
PERCENT OF ANALYZED
SITES WITH A SERIOUS*
VULNERABILITY
AVERAGE NUMBER OF
SERIOUS* VULNERABILITIES
PER SITE PER YEAR
81%
67%
226
DAYS
50
Cross-Site
Scripting*
Information
Leakage*
Content
Spoofing*
SQL injection*Cross-Site
request Forgery*
Brute Force* Directory
Indexing*
30%
20%
10% 31% 25% 12% 9% 8% 7% 7%
Financial Services
Industry Scorecard
THE CURRENT
STATE OF
WEBSITE SECURITY
TOP SEVEN
VULNERABILITY
CLASSES
CURRENT APPLICATION SECURITY BEHAVIORS AND CONTROLS
USED BY ORGANIZATIONS
*The percent of sites that had at least one example of...
*Serious vulnerabilities are defined as those in which an attacker could take control over all, or a part, of a website, compromise user accounts, access sensitive data or violate compliance requirements.
DAYS OVER A YEAR THAT A SITE IS EXPOSED TO SERIOUS* VULNERABILITIES
Programmers receive instructor led or computer-based software security training
Applications contain a library or framework that centralizes and enforces security controls
Perform Static Code Analysis on their website(s) underlying applications
Web Application Firewall Deployed
Transactional / Anti-Fraud Monitoring System Deployed
80%
100%
60%
40%
20% 64% 70%50%50% 40%
28% Always Vulnerable
38% Frequently Vulnerable 271-364 days a year
10% Regularly Vulnerable 151-270 days a year
10% Occasionally Vulnerable 31-150 days a year
23% Rarely Vulnerable 30 days or less a year
28% 28% 10% 10% 23%
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MOST COMMON
VULNERABILITIES
AT A GLANCE
EXPOSURE AND CURRENT DEFENSE
PERCENT OF SERIOUS*
VULNERABILITIES
THAT HAVE BEEN FIXED
AVERAGE TIME
TO FIX
PERCENT OF ANALYZED
SITES WITH A SERIOUS*
VULNERABILITY
AVERAGE NUMBER OF
SERIOUS* VULNERABILITIES
PER SITE PER YEAR
90%
53%
276
DAYS
22
Cross Site
Scripting*
Information
Leakage*
Content
Spoofing*
Brute Force*Insufficent
Transport
Layer Protection*
Cross Site
Request
Forgery*
Session
Fixation*
30%
20%
10% 40% 29% 22% 13% 12% 10% 9%
Healthcare Industry ScorecardApril 2013
THE CURRENT
STATE OF
WEBSITE SECURITY
TOP SEVEN
VULNERABILITY
CLASSES
CURRENT APPLICATION SECURITY BEHAVIORS AND CONTROLS
USED BY ORGANIZATIONS
*The percent of sites that had at least one example of...
*Serious vulnerabilities are defined as those in which an attacker could take control over all, or a part, of a website, compromise user accounts, access sensitive data or violate compliance requirements.
DAYS OVER A YEAR THAT A SITE IS EXPOSED TO SERIOUS* VULNERABILITIES
Programmers receive instructor led or computer-based software security training
Applications contain a library or framework that centralizes and enforces security controls
Perform Static Code Analysis on their website(s) underlying applications
Web Application Firewall Deployed
Transactional / Anti-Fraud Monitoring System Deployed
80%
100%
60%
40%
20% 67% 67%83%50% 34%
48% Always Vulnerable
22% Frequently Vulnerable 271-364 days a year
12% Regularly Vulnerable 151-270 days a year
7% Occasionally Vulnerable 31-150 days a year
10% Rarely Vulnerable 30 days or less a year
49% 22% 12% 7% 10%
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MOST COMMON
VULNERABILITIES
AT A GLANCE
EXPOSURE AND CURRENT DEFENSE
PERCENT OF SERIOUS*
VULNERABILITIES
THAT HAVE BEEN FIXED
AVERAGE TIME
TO FIX
PERCENT OF ANALYZED
SITES WITH A SERIOUS*
VULNERABILITY
AVERAGE NUMBER OF
SERIOUS* VULNERABILITIES
PER SITE PER YEAR
91 %
54%
224
DAYS
106
Cross Site
Scripting*
Information
Leakage*
Content
Spoofing*
Brute Force* SQL Injection*Cross Site
Request
Forgery*
Directory
Indexing*
30%
20%
10% 31% 25% 12% 9% 8% 7% 7%
Retail Industry ScorecardApril 2013
THE CURRENT
STATE OF
WEBSITE SECURITY
TOP SEVEN
VULNERABILITY
CLASSES
CURRENT APPLICATION SECURITY BEHAVIORS AND CONTROLS
USED BY ORGANIZATIONS
*The percent of sites that had at least one example of...
*Serious vulnerabilities are defined as those in which an attacker could take control over all, or a part, of a website, compromise user accounts, access sensitive data or violate compliance requirements.
DAYS OVER A YEAR THAT A SITE IS EXPOSED TO SERIOUS* VULNERABILITIES
Programmers receive instructor led or computer-based software security training
Applications contain a library or framework that centralizes and enforces security controls
Perform Static Code Analysis on their website(s) underlying applications
Web Application Firewall Deployed
Transactional / Anti-Fraud Monitoring System Deployed
80%
100%
60%
40%
20% 73% 60%90%70% 70%
54% Always Vulnerable
21% Frequently Vulnerable 271-364 days a year
6% Regularly Vulnerable 151-270 days a year
5% Occasionally Vulnerable 31-150 days a year
13% Rarely Vulnerable 30 days or less a year
54% 21% 6% 5% 13%
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MOST COMMON
VULNERABILITIES
AT A GLANCE
EXPOSURE AND CURRENT DEFENSE
PERCENT OF SERIOUS*
VULNERABILITIES
THAT HAVE BEEN FIXED
AVERAGE TIME
TO FIX
PERCENT OF ANALYZED
SITES WITH A SERIOUS*
VULNERABILITY
AVERAGE NUMBER OF
SERIOUS* VULNERABILITIES
PER SITE PER YEAR
85%
61 %
71
DAYS
18
Cross-Site
Scripting*
Information
Leakage*
Content
Spoofing*
Cross-Site
Request Forgery*
Brute Force*Fingerprinting* URL Redirector
Abuse*
30%
20%
10% 41% 35% 19% 18% 14% 12% 12%
Technology
Industry ScorecardApril 2013
5% 64% 10% 9% 11%
THE CURRENT
STATE OF
WEBSITE SECURITY
TOP SEVEN
VULNERABILITY
CLASSES
CURRENT APPLICATION SECURITY BEHAVIORS AND CONTROLS
USED BY ORGANIZATIONS
*The percent of sites that had at least one example of...
*Serious vulnerabilities are defined as those in which an attacker could take control over all, or a part, of a website, compromise user accounts, access sensitive data or violate compliance requirements.
DAYS OVER A YEAR THAT A SITE IS EXPOSED TO SERIOUS* VULNERABILITIES
Programmers receive instructor led or computer-based software security training
Applications contain a library or framework that centralizes and enforces security controls
Perform Static Code Analysis on their website(s) underlying applications
Web Application Firewall Deployed
Transactional / Anti-Fraud Monitoring System Deployed
80%
100%
60%
40%
20% 48% 52%96%72% 32%
5% Always Vulnerable
64% Frequently Vulnerable 271-364 days a year
10% Regularly Vulnerable 151-270 days a year
9% Occasionally Vulnerable 31-150 days a year
11% Rarely Vulnerable 30 days or less a year
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Answer:
SOFTWARE
DEVELOPMENT
Answer:
SECURITY
DEPARTMENT
Answer:
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Answer:
EXECUTIVE
MANAGEMENT
Question:If an organization experiences a website(s) data
or system breach, which part of the organization is held
accountable and and what is its performance?
3rd
1St
2nd
4th
4th
3rd
3rd
1st
3rd
2nd
1st
2nd
Average Vulnerabilities
per Site Ranking
Average Time to Fix a
Vulnerability Ranking
Average Number of
Vulnerabilities Fixed Ranking
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Top 10 Vulnerability Classes (2011)
(Sorted by vulnerability class)
Overall Vulnerability Population (2011)
Percentage breakdown of all the serious* vulnerabilities discovered
(Sorted by vulnerability class)