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TRENDING
GLOBAL SURVEY FINDS
BUSINESSES COULD BE AT
RISK DUE TO UNIDENTIFIED
NETWORK TRAFFIC
A global survey conducted by Sophos has revealed that
IT managers cannot identify 45% of their organisation’s
network traffic. A ‘lack of visibility’ is creating significant
security challenges for modern businesses, Sophos says.
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ophos, a global leader in network and
endpoint security, has announced
the findings of its worldwide survey,
revealing that IT managers cannot identify
45% of their organisation’s network traffic.
Canada, Mexico, France, Germany, the UK,
Australia, Japan, India and South Africa.
The survey, The Dirty Secrets of Network
Firewalls, shows that nearly one-in-four
cannot identify 70% of their network
traffic. This lack of visibility, Sophos says,
is creating ‘significant’ security challenges
for modern businesses while impacting
effective network management. It is unsurprising, given the debilitating
impact cyberattacks can have on a business,
that 84% of respondents agree that a
lack of application visibility is a serious
security concern. Without the ability to
identify what’s running on their network,
IT managers are blind to ransomware,
unknown malware, data breaches and other
advanced threats, as well as potentially
malicious applications and rogue users.
The survey polled more than 2,700 IT
decision makers from medium-sized
businesses in 10 countries including the US, Network firewalls with signature-based
detection are unable to provide adequate
visibility into application traffic due to a
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THE SURVEY
REVEALED
THAT 79% OF
IT MANAGERS
POLLED
WANT BETTER
PROTECTION
FROM THEIR
CURRENT
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