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The Top 8 security concerns raised
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Symantec surveyed attendees at the recent Black Hat Briefings held in Las Vegas — 42 percent of whom were IT managers — on their top security concerns. The group’s consensus came down to these:
- Web technologies are the area of greatest concern to IT managers.
- The majority of IT managers (60 percent) are most concerned about vulnerabilities in the Windows XP platform having vulnerabilities and the least concerned about Unix.
- Survey Respondent (36 percent) are the most interested in researching messaging/scripting technologies, followed by operating systems and infrastructure networking technologies.
- The Windows Vista platform is of the most interest for researchers, with 41 percent indicating that they plan to review it in the next year. This is down significantly from 2006, when 55 percent expressed an interest.
- In 2007, 38 percent of IT managers are more concerned with Vista vulnerabilities, up from the 31 percent who expressed concern in 2006.
- Mobile technologies, followed by virtualization and web services, were cited as hot security issues within Web application security.
- Of those being surveyed, 59 percent of respondents are for security researchers being paid the market rate for their research, regardless of who may ultimately purchase the vulnerability.
- An overwhelming 80 percent agree that public vulnerability auctions put both the vendor and the public at risk.
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