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Based on the results of a survey conducted at last week's RSA Security Conference in San Francisco, IT security pros are more concerned than ever regarding the resiliency of the software systems that their organizations use based on the availability of exploitable vulnerabilities in the programs.
According to the survey of 200 RSA attendees carried out by code analysis specialists Fortify, a lion's share of RSA attendees, some 73 percent, acknowledge that the software present in their organizations is likely to have exploitable flaws. The number seems even more daunting considering that another 26 percent of those surveyed chose not to answer the question.
In a nod to the seriousness of the issue, some 47 percent of respondents told Fortify that their companies are being actively targeted or attacked more than once a day, with many admitting that it is happening "hundreds of times a day" or "every moment."
Unsurprisingly, as a result of the problem of widespread attacks and highly exploitable vulnerabilities, 74 percent of those people answering the survey said that they now place a high priority on software security efforts within the scope of their overall security strategy. Only 15 percent stated that software security was not a specific area of focus while some 63 percent of respondents said that their organizations already employ a combination of technologies to address the issue.
Read the entire eWEEK Security Watch blog here.
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