Rapid7 has just released the 2020 National / Industry / Cloud Exposure Report, affectionately called the NICER report (you know, like “ATM machine” and “SCUBA apparatus”). This work is, in my humble opinion, the most comprehensive census of internet-based cyber-exposure yet. We pushed our world-class data science team (and their many wonderful toys) to its very limits to produce this report, in which we set out to find just how exposed the internet is today. As we all turn to the internet to fulfill our social needs during the global pandemic lockdown, it’s more crucial than ever that we actually measure and understand how core concepts like vulnerability management, cryptography, and service exposure all contribute to the security and availability of this culture-defining invention.
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But, that's not to say the report is inaccessible—you'll find that we sprinkled in enough fascinating facts, mini-case-studies, and dumb jokes to keep you rolling through. We also expect to be talking about this on an upcoming episode of Security Nation, and probably a ton of other venues in the coming weeks and months. There's a lot of material to cover and a lot of different ways to look at it, so we'll be exploring this space for a while yet.
But, just to get you all prepared to dive in, here are the key findings we present in the 2020 NICER report:
A technical assessment of the 24 service protocols surveyed finds that, on the whole, unencrypted, cleartext protocols are still th ..
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