Security News > 2022 > March > Satellite comms networks on alert after US govt warning

In a joint security alert, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and FBI "Strongly encourage" critical infrastructure operators, along with SATCOM network providers and customers, to put in place a series of mitigation steps to shore up their networks.

Security teams suffer from alert fatigue with the financial sector being hit the hardest, according to a new Orca Security report.

The cloud security vendor conducted a global survey of 813 IT decision makers across five countries and 10 industries, and found 59 percent of respondents receive more than 500 public cloud security alerts every day.

It's even worse for security teams at financial institutions: 71 percent of these respondents see more than 500 such alerts on a daily basis, 85 percent have more than 500 public cloud alerts open, and 63 percent say they spend more than 20 percent of their time each day reviewing and prioritizing alerts.

Almost all report they are confident or very confident in the tools' accuracy, while 43 percent say more than 40 percent of their security alerts turn out to be false positives.

More than half of the apps with Log4j were flagged "End-of-support," meaning that software providers won't provide security patches.

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