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Security Week

In this section, we highlight the security stories from the week in Fedora.

Contributing Writer: JoshBressers

Verizon Data-Breach Study

Verizon Business released a very interesting report on data breaches in the enterprise. Their findings are quite interesting, but two things especially stand out:

  • Insider threat has decreased substantially.
  • 90 percent of known vulnerabilities exploited had patches available for at least six months prior to the breach.

It seems that the single most important thing an administrator can do is to keep their system updated.