Administration and operations in the Healthcare industry have been revolutionized. Manual processes and traditional pen and paper consultations have made way for computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems, electronic health records (EHR) and various radiology, pharmacy and laboratory systems that connect to other systems and external networks, as well as the internet and the cloud.
The databases and archives of governments and national security infrastructures are prime targets for cyber exploitation by the criminal underworld, because they house masses of confidential, top secret social, economic and military information.
Cybercrime is the second most commonly reported economic crime in the Financial Services sector, accounting for 38% of incidents1. Unfortunately this is a trend that is predicted to continue on an upward trajectory.
To assess how exposed endpoints are, we analyze the types of products typically found on an endpoint. Throughout 2013, anonymous data has been gathered from scans of the millions of private computers which have the Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI) installed. Secunia data shows that the computer of a typical PSI user has an average