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| Ethical hackers discover 65000 vulnerabilities in 2022 |
A new report shows that ethical hackers will discover an increase in security vulnerabilities in 2022 compared to the previous year.
Because vulnerabilities are everywhere, in every device, application, or API, and attackers seek to exploit them in every situation, more organizations are turning to ethical hacking to find and fix these vulnerabilities before they appear. These defects.
According to the 2022 Hacker-Powered Security Report issued by HackerOne, ethical hackers discovered more than 65,000 software vulnerabilities during 2022, an increase of 21 percent compared to 2021.
The report found that digital transformation projects were associated with a 150 percent increase in system misconfigurations and a 45 percent increase in incorrect user permissions, which increases the number of vulnerabilities.
The report demonstrates the ability of the ethical hacking community to identify vulnerabilities at scale and highlights that internal information security teams cannot continue to rely on traditional methods of manually managing vulnerabilities.
The report comes as more organizations feel pressure to address mounting vulnerabilities. 66% of information security managers say they have discovered and accumulated more than 100,000 vulnerabilities, and 54% of them say they are able to fix them. Less than 50% vulnerabilities.
The sheer number of vulnerabilities has led to the need for a more scalable approach to vulnerability management, which is offered by bug bounty companies such as HackerOne and Ethical Hackers.
The HackerOne report shows that ethical hackers are able to identify vulnerabilities so that organizations can fix them before they cause accidents.