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Firms struggling to secure trust infrastructure, finds Ponemon report
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Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:21:28 -0600 (CST)
http://news.techworld.com/security/3427453/firms-struggling-secure-trust-infrastructure-finds-ponemon-report/ By John E Dunn Techworld 20 February 2013Large organisations are struggling to manage trust assets such as encryption keys and digital certificates in a muddle that could open many to the risk of cyberattack, a Ponemon survey for security management firm Venafi has concluded.
The Cost of Failed Trust report [registration required] found that 51 percent of the 2,342 admins questioned from the USA, Germany, the UK, Australia and France had no idea how many keys and certificates were in use - a bad start.
Of those who were able to come up with a number, the average was a formidable 17,807 per organisation.
Eighteen percent of organisations believed they were likely to fall prey to basic attacks pointed at “weak legacy” key storage or management over the next two years, with particular anxiety over the use of Secure Shell (SSH) keys used to connect to cloud services
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