Utilities ‘Concerningly’ at Risk from Active Exploits


The amount of time that utility networks spend exposed to a known application exploit has spiked over the past two months — something analysts called out as a “concerning datapoint,” and an important reminder that ransomware isn’t the only threat utility networks need to secure against.

A new report from WhiteHat Security measured the amount of time a sector remained vulnerable to a known application exploit out in the wild, a metric they call an industry’s window of exposure (WoE). They found the WoE for the utility sector climbed from 55 percent two months ago to 67 percent last month.

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Source: ThreatPost