A study of abandoned websites owned by leading global corporations hammers home the point that old web applications need to be properly mitigated or retired. Otherwise, these
resources often haunt a firm long after they have been forgotten.
Researchers at High-Tech Bridge used the Financial Times 500 list of leading companies and unearthed a number of concerns when it comes to forgotten web applications.
“Abandoned, shadow and legacy applications undermine the cybersecurity and compliance of the largest global companies, despite growing security spending,” according to the lenghtily named research report, “Abandoned Web Applications: Achilles’ Heel of FT 500 Companies.”
According to the report, 70 percent of FT Global 500 firms have access to a portion of their websites being sold on the internet black market. An additional 92 percent of external web applications have exploitable security flaws or weaknesses.
