80 percent of security exposures involve misconfigurations

A new report based on data gathered from over 40 million exposures presenting high-impact risks to millions of critical business entities, finds that identity and credential misconfigurations represent 80 percent of security exposures across organizations. The report, from exposure management specialist XM Cyber based on data analyzed by the Cyentia Institute, shows a third of these exposures put critical assets at direct risk of breach -- an attack vector actively being exploited by adversaries. The issue isn't helped by poor endpoint hygiene plaguing the majority of environments with cached credentials or lack of EDR (endpoint detection and response) coverage on… [Continue Reading]