Data from Trusteer and Qualys puts the spotlight on trouble in the vulnerability management process. It still typically takes a month for a patch to be deployed to half of vulnerable systems, Qualys reports, while Trusteer says nearly 80 percent of the computers it scans are running vulnerable versions of Adobe Flash.
– Successful exploits need not be zero-day attacks. In fact, it is often older
vulnerabilities in popular applications that are the doorknob intruders turn to
compromise systems.
This point was underscored recently by separate research from Qualys and
Trusteer highlighting some troublesome findin…