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Current Filter: Security>>>>>News> UK lags behind Germany in patching ability Editorial Type: News Date: 07-2015 Views: 1372   |  | ||
 | A survey of 200 UK and 200 German organisations, conducted by Vanson Bourne on behalf of Tenable Network Security, has found that UK organisations are not as quick to react to potential
cyber vulnerabilities as their German counterparts are Some 29% of UK organisations said they could patch significant vulnerabilities, such as ShellShock and Heartbleed, within an hour, compared to 48% of German organisations. To detect new software installed by users on the organisation's systems, UK respondents said it would take an average of 40 hours, while German respondents reported taking just 17 hours. "This is significant, because, with bugs and malware, time really is of the essence," said Gavin Millard, technical director, Tenable Network Security. "Once they're publicised, the bad guys are working just as quickly to exploit them as the good guys are working to fix them. If you think back to when ShellShock was revealed in September last year, within hours attackers had created botnets of compromised computers to launch attacks, with millions of attacks and probes related to the bug recorded in the days after. "For the 22% of UK organisations in our study that said it would take between a day and a month to find and fix vulnerabilities, that's a long time to have a chink in your defences." | ||
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