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Secunia Research: 2014 Vulnerabilities Increase 22% (15,435 ) over 2013...Why??
March 2015 by Secunia
This morning, vulnerability threat management firm Secunia, released its annual Secunia Vulnerability Review 2015, a research report full of data that focuses on the evolution of software vulnerabilities from a global, industry and endpoint perspective. The data was collected from a sampling of its more than 7 million Personal Software Inspector (PSI) users worldwide.
There are some key findings in here that might be worth sharing/explaining with your readers to demonstrate the challenges faced by security teams trying to protect their businesses against all these security breaches.
• 15,435 vulnerabilities across 3,870 applications were recorded in 2014 – that’s an 18% increase in vulnerabilities compared to the year before, and a 22% increase in the number of products
• The vulnerabilities are spread across 3,870 applications published by 500 different vendors
• Bundling and Open Source applications are becoming problematic, complicating the customers’ chance of knowing which products are in fact present on their system.
• Some good news: Of all the 15,435 vulnerabilities, a full 83% had a security patch available on the day the vulnerability was disclosed to the public.
• The 16 non-Microsoft applications only account for 31% of products but are responsible for 77% of the vulnerabilities discovered in the Top 50.
