Education sector is most exposed to remote attacks

The education sector tops the list of industries with the most vulnerable cloud assets, APIs and web applications, according to a new study from CyCognito.

The research revealed that, across all sectors, 14% of cloud assets, 21% of APIs and 20% of web apps were vulnerable to compromise. It claimed the latter two categories were more likely to be vulnerable due to shadow IT and third-party integrations which make them “easy to introduce and hard to govern.”

However, it was the education sector that topped the list, with almost a third (31%) of assets classed as vulnerable, rising to 38% of APIs and 35% of web apps.

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