The Importance of IT Security

Cyberseccc11 Nov, 2020Security

Hackers can discover and exploit weaknesses so quickly that an entire system can be compromised before information security analysts even know there is a problem. Because these attacks are usually made through “zero-day vulnerabilities,” or holes in software that are unknown to vendors, they pose one of the most significant tests of InfoSec. In its 2016 Cybercrime Report, digital security firm Symantec states that the known number of zero-day vulnerabilities in major, open-source Internet plug-ins doubled in 2015 and included the breach of the ubiquitous Adobe Flash Player.