2013 Server Security Report

2013 SERVER SECURITY REPORT In October 2013, 799 IT and security professionals were polled Worldwide on server security. The folowing are the key findings: How Many Total Servers Do You Administer? 51% 22% 28% 0-100 101-500 500+ 47% 23% 22% Red Hat Enterprise Linux Ubuntu Server CentOS What Linux Distribution are You Running? 16% 8% 6% SUSE Linux Fedora Other Enterprise Server WHAT SECURITY SOLUTIONS ARE YOU USING ON YOUR SERUERS? 92% 37% 29% 11% 8% File Integrity Monitoring Application Whitelisting Antivirus BHIPS Other Organizations Using More than 1 Full-Time Equivalent to Manage their Server Security? 2012 43% 2013 44% TARGETED ATTACKS & DATA BREACHES 55 percent of security professionals ranked targeted attacks and data breaches as their top concern in 2013 - up 3 percent from 2012, and up 18 percent from 2011. Interestingly, 17 percent ranked meeting and maintaining compliance as their top concern and 16 percent ranked unauthorized changes or impacts to system uptime and performance as a top concern. 55% 52% 37% 2013 2012 2011 WHAT IS YOUR TOP CONCERN REGARDING YOUR SERVER SECURITY? Unauthorized change impacts our system availability/uptime/performance: My current server security solution requires too much administration efforts: Meeting and maintaining compliance requirements: '12 - 18% '12 - 12% '12 - 19% '13 - 16% '13 - 12% '13 - 17% How confident are you in your ability to stop advanced threats targeting your servers? <7% - UNSURE <13% - UERY CONFIDENT In 2012, 20% of those surveyed said that they were not confident in their ability to stop advanced malware. In 2013, that number has increased to 22%. (22% - NOT CONFIDENT <59% - SOMEWHAT CONFIDENT WHICH TYPES OF SERVERS POSE THE HIGHEST RISH? 4% 12% Application Servers 10% 3% File Servers Database Servers Virtual Servers 52% 9% 11% Domain Servers E-mail Servers Web Servers AEROCOM laas • Caas • ITaaS • SaaS • MPLS • Voice • Internet © 2014 AeroCom Inc. Source: https://www.bit9.com/download/reports/2013-Server-Survey-Report-web-3-20.pdf