Security News > 2020 > May > 23% of leading banks had an exposed database with potential data leakage

Reposify unveiled research findings of critical asset exposures and vulnerabilities in attack surfaces of the world's leading multinational banks.

Researchers measured the prevalence of exposed sensitive assets including exposed databases, remote login services, development tools and additional assets for 25 multinational banks and their 350+ subsidiaries.

Banks deal with exposed database threat 23% of banks had at least one misconfigured database exposed to the internet resulting in potential data leakage issues.

54% of the banks had at least one RDP exposed to the internet.

Banks typically have well-established security programs which are heavily regulated by various institutions yet 84% of the exposed assets are likely to be under IT and security teams' radars and out of the scope of traditional asset management and security tools.

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