Secure Shell keys are routinely untracked, unmanaged and poorly secured in financial service organizations even though they provide the highest levels of administrative access in those organizations, according to new research.
Salt Lake City-based Venafi recently conducted a study that evaluated how finservs manage and implement SSH, which are network protocols for securing remote connections between computers, as well as providing strong authentication. One hundred IT security professionals from the financial services industry participated in the study, which revealed a widespread lack of SSH security controls.
For example, 69% of respondents from the financial services industry admit they do not actively rotate keys, even when an administrator leaves their organization. This allows former employees to have ongoing privileged access to critical and sensitive systems.
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