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75 % OF AUSTRALIAN IT LEADERS ATTRIBUTE THE SIZE OF TODAY ’ S ATTACK SURFACE TO WEB APP PROLIFERATION
New research from Fastly shows over half of businesses struggle to reduce the risk of attacks , leaving them fearful of compromise , particularly by nation-states and other types of threat actors .
Fastly , a global edge cloud platform provider , has released new research in partnership with Ecosystm that shows 75 % of Australian businesses are now living with a vastly increased attack surface caused by their reliance on webbased applications . Large attack surfaces are routinely sought out and tested by attackers looking for less-protected entry points into corporate IT environments .
Leveraging Web Application Firewalls ( WAFs ) and Content Delivery Networks ( CDNs ) should be part of a holistic defense-indepth security strategy .
According to the survey , organizations in Australia moved en masse to more decentralized IT architectures over the past two years , but still struggle with some of the cybersecurity implications of these kinds of digital – and cloud-first operating models . Cloud , web applications and the APIs that enable these apps to integrate and exchange data rate highly in the risk and challenge assessments by CIOs , IT directors and technology leaders of Australian organizations . to pose considerable risks as potential entry points for attackers .
Inadequate controls around these architectural elements , coupled with a lack of operational maturity and reliance on traditional defensive postures , has Australian business leaders on edge and fearful of attacks .
API endpoints , cloud service provider authentication , and enterprise open-source software are all seen
The survey shows that 65 % of large enterprises in Australia rate nation state attacks as a very high or high
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