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Half of Security Professionals Think Java Applications are Vulnerable to Attacks


Insecure Coding and Third Party Libraries Pose Biggest Threats According to Waratek Survey of Attendees at Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit (image: Kobizmedia/ Korea Bizwire)

Insecure Coding and Third Party Libraries Pose Biggest Threats According to Waratek Survey of Attendees at Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit (image: Kobizmedia/ Korea Bizwire)

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NEW YORK, July 17, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–Waratek, the Java application  protection and management company, today announced the results of a  survey conducted at the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit last  month. Half of the senior IT professionals polled said their Java  applications are vulnerable (32%) or very vulnerable (17%) to attacks.  They cited insecure coding (60%) and vulnerabilities in third party  libraries (25%) as the leading threats. Meanwhile, nearly 90 percent of  respondents said their security teams didn’t possess enough information  about data center applications to enable them to properly protect those  apps from attack.

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“Custom developed Java-based applications dominate virtually every  industry, especially financial services and ecommerce,” said Brian  Maccaba, CEO of Waratek. “Since many of these enterprise applications  are running on older versions of the platform and use third party code,  it’s not surprising that so many security professionals are concerned  about vulnerabilities in these programs.”

Waratek surveyed more than 130 CISO, CSO, CIO and other IT executives at  the recent Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit about their  enterprise and application security concerns. According to those polled:

  • Keeping up with the latest threats (43%) and finding/retaining talent  (25%) are their biggest enterprise security challenges
  • Their biggest concerns are loss of company reputation due to data  breaches (55%) and loss of customer data and intellectual property  (34%)
  • Java applications are vulnerable (32%), very vulnerable (17%) and only  somewhat secure (34%)
  • The leading threats to Java applications are insecure coding (60%),  vulnerabilities in third party libraries (25%) and SQL Injection  attacks (19%)
  • Security teams lack sufficient information about applications in order  to protect them (87%)

The Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit featured six programs  focusing on IT Security, risk management and compliance, business  continuity management, chief information security officer (CISO) roles,  the marketplace for security and security architecture to deliver  detailed, role-specific content and networking.

About Waratek

Waratek makes Java enterprise applications more secure and easier to  manage. The Waratek Application Security for Java platform provides  transparent, run-time application self-protection against business logic  and network layer threats. The Waratek CloudVM enables organizations to  deploy multiple Java apps on a single server within Cloud or datacenter  environments to dramatically reduce operating costs. Waratek is a SWIFT  Innotribe Top Global Innovator and Gartner Cool Vendor in Application  and Integration Platforms. The company is headquartered in Dublin,  Ireland with offices in London, New York, Sydney, Tokyo, Shanghai,  Taipei and Seoul. For further information please visit www.waratek.com.

Source: Waratek (via BusinessWire)

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