Palo Alto Networks Application Usage reveals 32 per cent of applications capable of using SSL
The visible impact of Heartbleed has been on web applications, such as Yahoo!, Google, Dropbox, Facebook, online banking, and the thousands of other vulnerable targets on the web. These are of huge impact, but those sites have been updated and the world has moved on, believing Heartbleed is behind us.
Sharat Sinha, Vice President, Asia Pacific for Palo Alto Networks, said, “For security professionals and organisations this is only the tip of the iceberg. The Heartbleed vulnerability puts the tools that were once reserved for truly advanced cyber criminals into the hands of the average attacker, notably, the ability to breach organisations and move laterally within them.
The Palo Alto Networks Application Usage and Threat Report provides the industry’s most detailed assessment of the relationship between advanced cyber threats and the applications running on enterprise networks worldwide. In APAC, the survey revealed that 32 per cent of applications are capable of using SSL. The top ten sub-categories in the enterprise that can use SSL include file-sharing, instant messaging, social networking, photo-video, internet conferencing, remote access, internet-utility, management, email and general business.
Sharat Sinha said, “SSL use is a much bigger problem than it was even a year ago, because if organisations don’t know how many applications running on the network use SSL, they also don’t know how many of those applications use OpenSSL, which may directly or indirectly expose the organisation.
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