Telcos And Vendors Tackle Lax Network Security Strategies
TelecomTV, Friday, July 28,2023
AT&T, BT and Verizon, along with big names from the vendor community such as Cisco, Intel and Juniper, are among the companies to have joined a new industry alliance, the Network Resilience Coalition, which is focused on ensuring that network infrastructure is as secure as it could, and should, be.
- Outdated network infrastructure is a heightened security risk
- Critical security updates are often not installed in a 'timely' fashion
- A new alliance has been formed to tackle the issue
- AT&T, BT, Cisco, Intel and Verizon are among the initial members
Communications networks comprise systems sourced from many companies and are nearly always a mix of state-of-the-art and legacy systems, but one of the few things these systems all have in common is that they need to be secure. And according to the founding members of the new coalition, 'it is common for organisations to lack robust patching and vulnerability management programmes or to not install critical updates in a timely manner, despite their availability.'