14 DAY TRIAL // A new vulnerability report from Secunia information security company shows that products from IBM registered the largest number of security flaws in the past three months, although the number dwindled to almost a third in April.
The document presents data collected February through April and organizes it in lists with the 20 products with most reported vulnerabilities. This does not necessarily mean that the issues are still present.
IBM products recorded more than 550 glitches
According to information from Secunia, the number of vulnerabilities regarding solutions from IBM was 552 for the three-month period included in the report.
However, from 290 security holes for nine products registered in February, the number decreased to 120 in April, for four offerings from the company.
The affected solutions are designed for corporate environment and some of them are deployed to increase the security of the perimeter, such as Security Network Intrusion Prevention System and Security Network Protection.
Others on the list are Cognos Business Intelligence, Hardware Management Console, Systems Director Storage Control, Lotus, Domino and InfoSphere Information Server.
Chrome leads vuln list in March, OS X at the top in April
Secunia’s report indicates that developers of programs oriented towards consumers also had to deal with a slew of security problems.
In February, Avant Browser was first on the list, with 84 flaws reported. Although the number is high, the browser is not to be found in the top 20 compilations for the next two months.
Not the same can be said about Google Chrome, which led the pack in March with 51 vulnerabilities and, with slightly more flaws (54) fell in second place in April, being topped by OS X with 84 vulnerabilities.
“Looking at the Top 20 lists in this report provides a more nuanced picture and is significant from a corporate IT perspective: While there is certainly “repeat business” every month, these lists present a wide variety of products, used in all manner of business contexts, reminding us that vulnerability management is a fickle discipline: what you patched to stay secure last month, will do your security very little good, next month,” says the report.