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Server Security Is Caught In The Early Aughts, Needs Critical Update Bit9 Survey Suggests

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November 12, 2013

Server Security Is Caught In The Early Aughts, Needs Critical Update Bit9 Survey Suggests

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By Michael Mayday
TMCnet Contributing Writer

Out of sight, out of mind is no way to approach security, but it appears to be the status quo when it comes to protecting servers from attacks.


 Bit9 (News - Alert) (News - Alert), an endpoint and real time server security service, recently conducted its third Server Security Survey, polling nearly 800 IT and security professional worldwide. The survey found that a good deal of respondents still rely on antivirus programs to protect servers from attacks. This is a reactive methodology, and it's wrong.

 “It is alarming to see that in 2013, 92 percent of IT and security professionals still rely on old-fashioned security solutions—particularly antivirus—and only a quarter of those surveyed have deployed a new generation of server security that doesn’t rely on signatures and is much more effective at detecting and stopping advanced threats and targeted attacks,” Nick Levay, Bit9 chief security officer said in a prepared statement.

 That unease over lackluster security shows in the survey's results. Only 13 percent of respondents, according to the survey, said they're "very confident" in their ability to prevent advanced attacks on servers. Additionally, 26 percent of respondents admitted they were attacked by advance malware in 2012, while 25 percent said they don't know if they were attacked at all. Most shockingly, only 29 percent of respondents said they use new-generation security — like application control or whitelisting — in their server security plan.

 “Another very interesting result is the response to the question about which types of servers pose the highest risk," Levay said. "More than half of respondents said Web servers. While it’s true Web servers may present the greatest risk of being compromised, the real risk that organizations must be aware of is which types of servers could cause the most damage to the business if they were breached. In that case it’s database and file servers because the data those machines contain is significantly more desirable to cyber criminals, hacktivists and nation states."

 Antivirus has its place in the security realm, but it does little to protect sensitive data from sophisticated attacks. A proactive approach to server security isn't a luxury — it's necessary.




Edited by Cassandra Tucker


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