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Thursday, July 24, 2008
Top internal network threats in 2008 so far
Promisec discovered that 12% of infected computers had a missing or disabled anti-virus program, 10.7% had unauthorized personal storage like USB sticks or external hard drives, 9.1% had unauthorized peer-to-peer (P2P) applications installed, 8.5% had a missing 3rd party desktop agent, 2.6% had unprotected shared folders, 2.2% had unauthorized remote control software, and 2% had missing Microsoft service packs.
Promisec announced its findings from security audits of more than 100,000 corporate endpoints.
These audits were conducted in the first six months of 2008 in enterprises of different sizes and revealed that not even one organization was completely clean from internal threats, and the minimum number of threats found was three.