Security in the enterprise: Things are looking up!>
Help Net Security – Zeljka Zorz
Based on the results of an analysis of authentication and verification events made through the companyâs enterprise offerings between November 1, 2016 to October 31, 2017, security tools by Jamf, KnowBe4, DigiCert, Cisco, Mimecast, Sophos, and CloudFlare all ranked in the top 15 fastest growing apps for the first time. These results definitely point to companies having increased security spending. By pairing their security data and the data provided by open source threat intel feeds, the company was able to analyze attacks targeted at the cloud authentication layer. What they discovered is that 23% of all attacks came from Tor exit nodes, and of the rest, 48% of attacks are coming from IPs geolocated in China, followed by 7.7% from the United States, 4.5% from France, 3.4% from Russia and 2.6% from the Netherlands. They discovered that only 50% would have passed the standard length test requirement of 8 or more characters and that only 4% of companies have a policy that requires passwords to have more than 8 characters, at least one uppercase letter, one lowercase letter, and one number. One good news is that multi-factor authentication continues to grow among Oktaâs customers â currently, nearly 70 percent of them offer three or more factor options to their users. The bad news is that security questions and SMS â two of the least secure options â are the definite favorites: According to the companyâs numbers, the most popular apps by number of customers are Microsoft Office 365, Salesforce, Amazon AWS, G Suite, Box, Concur, and Slack. If we go by the number of monthly active users, Microsoft Office 365 still comes on top, followed by Workday, ServiceNow, Salesforce, G Suite, Box, and Concur. The most popular developer tools and services are JIRA, Github, Pager Duty, New Relic, and Atlassian Cloud. The most popular eLearning apps are Lynda.com, Coursera, Pluralsight, Codecademy, and Safari.
Link: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2018/01/24/security-enterprise-2018/