The eight common weaknesses of IT security

Every organization in the 21st century understands that keeping proprietary data safe is crucial to its success. However, while business leaders tend to believe their current security products and policies are truly secure, breaches continue to climb. It is clear that despite an ever-increasing number of companies maintaining formalized security programs and annually increasing security budgets, there are gaps that continue to go unnoticed and unaddressed. Through hundreds of assessments and breach analyses, we have concluded there are eight common weaknesses that most commonly enable threat actors to penetrate organizations’ security armor, move through networks to elevate privileges, and ultimately… [Continue Reading]