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Software security flaws and human behavior are major network vulnerability points, Ixia finds

April 22, 2019

Software security flaws — including those with available fixes that haven’t been applied — and human behavior continue to be the top sources of network vulnerabilities, according to a new report from Keysight Technologies’ Ixia group.

In its third annual security report, Ixia’s Application and Threat Intelligence Research Center (a legacy of Ixia’s 2012 acquisition of BreakingPoint, which established ATI in 2005)) said that “poor cyber hygiene continues to persist year after year,” including the use of default login and password credentials; and that attacks that date back as far as 2009 remain effective because vulnerabilities are either unpatched or because patches aren’t available for legacy systems.

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