Security News > 2021 > August > Connected devices increasingly at risk as new ransomware attacks are reported almost daily
The 2021 study addresses pandemic-related cybersecurity challenges, including the growth of connected devices and related increase of security risks from these devices as threat actors took advantage of chaos to launch attacks.
42% of connected devices were agentless or un-agentable devices.
These devices include medical and manufacturing devices that are critical to business operations along with network devices, IP phones, video surveillance cameras and facility devices that are not designed with security in mind, cannot be patched, and cannot support endpoint security agents.
With almost half of devices in the network that are either agentless or un-agentable, organizations need to complement their endpoint security strategy with a network-based security approach to discover and secure these devices.
About 19% of deployments with devices running outdated operating systems Windows 7 and older have been identified, and almost 34% of deployments with devices running Windows 8 and Windows 10, which are expected to end-of-life in 2023 and 2025, respectively.
"As the number of connected devices climbs, the number and sophistication of attacks targeting them will grow."
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