Survey: 50% of Small to Mid-Sized Businesses Don’t Scan Web Applications for Security Risks

January 19, 2012

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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- nCircle, the leading provider of automated security and compliance auditing solutions, today announced the results of a security survey of 145 professionals responsible for IT security in small to mid-sized businesses.

The study was conducted between November 14, 2011 and November 26, 2011 to better understand the security and compliance issues that have the greatest impact on smaller businesses.

When asked “Are you sure the web applications your company uses are secure?”, 39% of respondents said they rely on their firewall and third party applications for web security and 11% said outsourcing their web applications provided “good enough” security.

“Web application vulnerabilities such as cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL Injection attacks make up an increasing percentage of newly discovered vulnerabilities and reported cyber-attacks. Web applications also change faster than many other business applications,” said Elizabeth Ireland, vice president of marketing at nCircle. “These two factors combine to make web applications a primary target for cyber criminals. Every organization should apply extra security diligence to their web applications, even if the applications are sourced through a third party.”

View the results of the nCircle Small Business Security Survey here.

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