OPINION / VIRSEC
REMOTE CODE EXECUTION: THE NEW CYBERSECURITY BATTLEGROUND
SATYA GUPTA, CO-FOUNDER AND CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER AT VIRSEC, ON WHY THE REMOTE CODE EXECUTION (RCE) IS A DEADLY CYBER-ATTACK WEAPON THAT MUST NEVER BE UNDERESTIMATED.
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Satya Gupta
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AUGUST 2021
his week, CheckPoint published a new report that chronicled the UAE threat landscape over the past six months. In the report, the company identified that the most common vulnerability exploit type was Remote Code Execution (RCE), which impacted 62% of businesses. This finding is not at all surprising. From an attacker’s perspective, an RCE vulnerability in a workload – a workload being the infrastructure on which data center software runs- is the gift that keeps on giving, in countless attacks, not only in the UAE but across the globe. Metaphorically speaking, RCE vulnerabilities are like the rocket that will launch
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