Security News > 2021 > October > Storage systems vulnerabilities: Act now to avoid disasters

Continuity issued a research report which provided an analysis of the vulnerabilities and misconfigurations of enterprise storage systems.

The findings revealed that storage systems have a significantly weaker security posture than the other two layers of IT infrastructure: compute or network.

The impact of storage systems vulnerabilities More than 6,300 discrete security issues, such as vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, were detected.

On average, enterprise storage devices had 15 security vulnerabilities.

"Security vulnerabilities and misconfigurations of storage devices present a significant threat, especially as ransomware attacks have taken hold of businesses over the past few years. Yet based on our analysis, the security posture of most enterprise storage systems is strikingly weak. Organizations must act immediately to better protect their storage - as well as backup systems - to ensure their data is secure against ransomware and other cyberattacks."

To help organizations gain the visibility they need to understand their storage vulnerability risk and avoid blind spots, they should evaluate existing security processes and ensure that the storage layer be secured and hardened to a similar - if not greater - extent as compute and network assets.

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