Among key insights were some troubling numbers:
- 92% of pharmaceutical companies had at least one exposed database with potential data leakage.
- 46% of pharmaceutical companies had an exposed SMB service. SMB exposures were previously exploited in other infamous attacks, like WannaCry, NotPetya and Nachi and Blaster worms.
- In 70% of pharmaceutical M&A deals in 2020 that were analyzed, the newly acquired subsidiary had a negative impact on the security posture of the parent company – adding tens, in some cases, hundreds of sensitive exposed and unpatched services.
"The pharmaceutical sector is one of the largest contributors to the global economy and human welfare," said Uzi Krieger, CEO of Reposify. "But pharmaceutical companies are struggling to protect their distributed network perimeter from increased cyber attacks coming from well-funded and well-organized hacking groups on the hunt to steal and hold valuable, confidential data for ransom or other nefarious acts. Covid-19 is still ravaging parts of the world, variants are spiking, and the safety of clinical research, manufacturing and supply chains have never been so important to humanity, and yet, pharmaceutical companies remain ill prepared and unsecured, spiraling the industry into red level vulnerability to external attacks."
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Join Reposify's webinar, 'The Pharmaceutical Industry's Worst External Attack Surface Exposures', on Wednesday, July 28th at 7am PST/ 10am EST, to learn more about how pharmaceutical companies can improve their security posture and protect their external attack surface from hackers. Register here.
About Reposify
Reposify, the leading external attack surface management platform, helps security teams discover and eliminate unknown exposures and shadow IT risks across all environments with no agents or deployment required.
Reposify delivers an always up-to-date view of a company's exposed asset inventory, analyzes and prioritizes every asset and generates a plan with actionable insights so teams can resolve more issues in less time. Leading enterprises worldwide use Reposify to discover and secure their internet-facing assets in real-time.
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