Kollective releases State of
Software Delivery report
Kollective’s research revealed that more
than a quarter of enterprise IT departments
must wait at least a month before they can
install vital security updates
businesses at greater risk of a targeted
cyberattack, as hackers look to exploit
the vulnerabilities of outdated systems.
Kollective’s report also found that
37% of IT managers list ‘a failure to
install updates’ as the biggest security
threat of 2018. This makes outdated
software a bigger threat than password
vulnerabilities (33%), BYOA/BYOD (22%)
and unsecured USB sticks (9%).
Kollective’s report, which incorporates
research from 260 IT managers, leaders
and decision makers, highlights how
the network security of UK businesses
is failing to meet industry expectations.
These failings are especially common
among large organisations – with 45%
of those with over 100,000 computer
terminals having to wait at least a
month before installing vital security
updates. This failure to rapidly deploy
and install security updates is placing Kollective blames this failure to install
updates on a combination of slow testing
procedures and an inability to distribute
updates automatically at scale.
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Dan Vetras, CEO of Kollective, said:
“Following numerous corporate
cyberattacks over the last 12 months,
today’s businesses are spending more
than ever before on enhancing and
improving their security systems. But
this investment is wasted if they aren’t
keeping their systems up-to-date. While
it’s obviously important for IT teams to
spend time testing new software and
updates before rolling them out, our
research has found that many of the
delays in software distribution aren’t
because of testing but rather a lack
of infrastructure.
“Poorly constructed networks mean
that, even those companies that have
made a significant investment in
security software, are still leaving their
organisations vulnerable to attack. With
a growing number of applications being
left out of date, today’s businesses
are creating their own backdoors for
hackers, botnets and malware to attack.”
To find out more about the role of
software delivery in enterprise networks
and security, download Kollective’s State
of Software Delivery report. u
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ore than a quarter (27%) of
enterprise IT departments must
wait at least a month before
they can install vital security updates.
That’s according to a new State of
Software Delivery report from enterprise
content delivery company Kollective,
which examines the software testing and
distribution bottlenecks throughout large
organisations in the US and UK.