Young people at laptopsMOSCOW, Jan 17 nodes in the infrastructure of Russian state institutions and companies, according to a study by the Russian company in the field of cybersecurity Positive Technologies. The data was obtained as part of the MaxPatrol VM (vulnerability management system) pilot projects, as a result of which more than 15 thousand network nodes were scanned in the infrastructure of state institutions, scientific institutions and education, financial institutions and telecommunications companies. «During the scans, an average of 31,066 vulnerabilities were identified in one pilot project, while critical vulnerabilities were found in all pilot projects,» the message says. On average, according to experts, » extremely dangerous» more than 800 vulnerabilities in the infrastructure of companies. Positive Technologies calls such vulnerabilities «trend» — they are actively used in attacks or are highly likely to be exploited in the near future, so they must be eliminated first. According to experts, priority vulnerabilities should be prioritized according to the degree of possible negative consequences for the company. Positive Technologies analyst Yana Yurakova noted that two groups of factors influence the priority of eliminating a vulnerability: its significance and accessibility for hackers and the degree of danger of the vulnerability itself, that is, the likelihood that an attacker will take advantage of it. only the second one is guided,» Yurakova added.
