The latest State of IT Visibility Report by Flexera found that 24% of companies are saying they have full visibility over their IT assets, 70.8% claim having some visibility and 4% say they have none, ZDNet reports.
The results of the survey highlight the ongoing challenge for organizations in monitoring their data located across cloud and on-premises infrastructures and the resulting security impact of the lack of complete visibility.
According to the survey, 80% identified lack of good data as the top challenge when making IT decisions; 73.9% said their visibility is greatest in on-premises hardware, while 68.3% say so with on-premises software, 45.9% with cloud instances and 40.9% with software-as-a-service.
The survey also found that more than 25% of hardware and software have reached their end of support or end of life, 58.8% of vulnerabilities found in software at their end of support or end of life are of low threat severity, and 45.6% of respondents said their most vulnerable category at end of life or support are operating systems
The results of the survey highlight the ongoing challenge for organizations in monitoring their data located across cloud and on-premises infrastructures and the resulting security impact of the lack of complete visibility.
According to the survey, 80% identified lack of good data as the top challenge when making IT decisions; 73.9% said their visibility is greatest in on-premises hardware, while 68.3% say so with on-premises software, 45.9% with cloud instances and 40.9% with software-as-a-service.
The survey also found that more than 25% of hardware and software have reached their end of support or end of life, 58.8% of vulnerabilities found in software at their end of support or end of life are of low threat severity, and 45.6% of respondents said their most vulnerable category at end of life or support are operating systems
