Survey Shows Nearly Half of IT Professionals Polled Feel Their Web Sites Are Not Secure, but Only 40 Percent of Them Test Sites on a Regular Basis...NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - October 13, 2009) - SC World Congress -- Web application security and hackers are a key business issue, and in some cases the biggest threat for organizations. With intellectual property, critical client data and trade secrets being housed on internal and external Web applications, a security breach has the potential to destroy company reputation, brand and the business itself.
So in spite of the fact that the majority of IT professionals polled think their Web sites might not be secure, why are 63 percent of companies only testing their Web applications on a quarterly basis or less often? How are only 28 percent of respondents unaware of a security breach ever occurring at their company?
This data, culled from nearly 400 IT professionals, almost 50 percent of whom had annual corporate revenue of $100 million or more, comes from a survey on Web application security conducted by eMedia and sponsored by Cenzic. These results are surprising given recent high profile cybercrime headlines and an industry statistic those in the security trenches live by -- that according to Gartner 75 percent of all deployed Web applications are vulnerable to attack.
If management doesn't understand the seriousness of Web application security, how can the company's security professionals possibly get the support and financial backing they need to protect corporate assets? Buy-in from various levels of an organization is key, garner support by following these best practices:
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