Keysight Technologies, Inc. announced that Ixia, a Keysight Business, has released its third annual Security Report. The 2019 report analyzes the biggest security findings over the past year from Ixia's Application and Threat Intelligence (ATI) Research Center and highlights risksoriginating from historic unpatched vulnerabilities as well as from growing network and application complexity.
The report draws on Ixia's in-depth experience in network security testing, and the company's focus on network and cloud visibility. An elite, globally distributed team of dedicated cybersecurity professionals staffs the Ixia ATI Research Center and continually monitors and analyzes the ever-evolving indicators which could threaten the security of enterprise IT networks. Inputs to the research process come from multiple sources, including Ixia honeypots which actively look for threats in the wild, independent research by the team that conducts tests and reverse engineers exploits to determine how they work international exploit databases, the Dark Web, scans of security news alerts and crowdsourcing, and social media and partner feeds.
"Compromised enterprise networks from unpatched vulnerabilities and bad security hygiene continued to be fertile ground for hackers in 2018. Misconfigured security and access policies were also a major source of data breaches in 2018," said Steve McGregory, senior director, Ixia Application and Threat Intelligence, Keysight Technologies. "Network and application complexity pose serious security threats and create new vulnerabilities every day. Hackers continue to leverage the complexity as well as existing vulnerabilities and misconfigurations to their advantage. It has never been more important for organizations to take a proactive approach to identify and mitigate such flaws as thoroughly as possible."
Key findings from the 2019 Security Report include:
Security Watchlist for 2019
Based upon Ixia-collected data and historical activity, the Ixia ATI team predicts the following six trends for 2019: