Blasted from the past: why you can't ignore old vulnerabilities
Marina Kidron · Computer Fraud & Security · 2017
How many cyber-security articles begin with ‘The threat landscape changes constantly’? While the concept is true, one aspect of the threat landscape likes to stay the same as long as it can – exploited vulnerabilities. According to data from the latest Fortinet Global Threat Landscape Report, 90% of enterprises are still recording exploits for vulnerabilities that are more than three years old, and 60% for vulnerabilities more than a decade old.1