Firms struggling to secure trust infrastructure, finds Ponemon report

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http://news.techworld.com/security/3427453/firms-struggling-secure-trust-infrastructure-finds-ponemon-report/

By John E Dunn
Techworld
20 February 2013

Large organisations are struggling to manage trust assets such as encryption 
keys and digital certificates in a muddle that could open many to the risk of 
cyberattack, a Ponemon survey for security management firm Venafi has 
concluded.

The Cost of Failed Trust report [registration required] found that 51 percent 
of the 2,342 admins questioned from the USA, Germany, the UK, Australia and 
France had no idea how many keys and certificates were in use - a bad start.

Of those who were able to come up with a number, the average was a formidable 
17,807 per organisation.

Eighteen percent of organisations believed they were likely to fall prey to 
basic attacks pointed at “weak legacy” key storage or management over the next 
two years, with particular anxiety over the use of Secure Shell (SSH) keys used 
to connect to cloud services

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