Security problems will have to wait till the football is over
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If you're unlucky enough to suffer a major security failure during the last five minutes of a major football match, like tonight's UEFA champions league event between Manchester United and Barcelona, 39% of IT professionals say the problem will have to wait.
That's according to a survey of 151 IT professionals at Infosecurity Europe by security solutions firm Tufin Technologies. On the flip side that does leave an incredibly loyal 61%, who would right their company's IT problems no matter how nail-biting the final minutes of the match.
The survey was commissioned to find out attitudes into firewall management, which also found 51% of IT professionals saying their corporate firewall base rules are in a mess.
One in five also admit that either they or a colleague has cheated to get an audit passed and a staggering 9% have avoided having any kind of audit conducted on their firewall base rules. 63% only check and audit their firewalls from anything between thee months to a year.
Says Tufin CEO Ruvi Kitov: "If your firewall rules are out of synch, then it's almost impossible to police and to gauge who has access to your network.
"Managing and configuring firewalls can be a nightmare without the right automation tools – which is why it's no surprise to us that people are admitting that their firewall rules are in a mess and some are even cheating to get them through the audit process."
