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According to a recent report<\/a> Network Attached Storage (NAS) market is touted to grow from $23.2 in 2020 billion to $48 billion.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>
That\u2019s hardly a surprising forecast. With the pandemic restricting people from leaving their homes, most people are using enterprise data storage systems, VPNs, remote conferencing tools, BI, etc. to work remotely. And without a vaccine in place we are looking at an extended period of remote working.<\/p>
While Enterprise data storage systems are great to work with\u00a0they are also sitting ducks for threat attacks.<\/p>
In our recent report series \u2018Cyber Risk in Enterprise Database<\/a>\u2019 we examined popular enterprise data storage applications for vulnerabilities and found that there were many vulnerabilities that have potentially become weaponized and the prognosis is not good.<\/p>
If this technology is going to be used widely in the next few years, then it is important that critical vulnerabilities that exist in these products be fixed.<\/p>
Key Findings<\/strong><\/h3>
The report puts popular Enterprise Data Storage Systems under the lens and delves deep into their vulnerabilities.<\/p>
- 108\u00a0CVEs are weaponized<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/li>
- 56\u00a0CVEs have RCE and Privilege Execution<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/li>
- 3\u00a0CVEs are associated with Ransomware\u00a0Ryuk<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/li>
- Scanners such as Nessus, Nexpose, Qualys have missed\u00a041,\u00a043, and\u00a030\u00a0vulnerabilities, respectively.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/blockquote>
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Vulnerabilities in Enterprise Data Storage Systems<\/strong><\/h3>
We analyzed over 741<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>vulnerabilities in total and found 108\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>CVEs have been weaponized. Out of these, 56\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>CVEs are associated with RCE (Remote Code Execution), <\/b>and 3 <\/strong><\/span>are connected to Ransomware.<\/p>
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Weaponization of Vulnerabilities<\/strong><\/h3>
Among the popular vendors that went under our microscope, our findings reveal the following \u2013<\/p>
- Netapp <\/strong>\u00a0and Synology <\/strong>have the maximum number of vulnerabilities that are yet to weaponized<\/li>
- Zyxel <\/strong>(28<\/span><\/strong>) has the maximum number of weaponized vulnerabilities followed by Synology <\/strong>(21<\/span><\/strong>).<\/li><\/ul>
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Critical vulnerabilities<\/strong><\/h3>
There are 121 <\/span><\/strong>critical vulnerabilities in total and among them, Zyxel (18<\/span><\/strong>) has the highest number of critical vulnerabilities, followed by NEC (17<\/span><\/strong>) and Qnap (14<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>
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We analyzed the weaponization trends for the past decade and found that weaponization rates have been increasing since the year 2015 and it spiked in 2017 and 2018.<\/p>
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If there is going to be a spike in the usage of Enterprise Data Storage systems, then these vulnerabilities need to be fixed immediately.<\/p>
Count of vulnerabilities missed by popular scanners<\/span><\/strong><\/p>