Quote:Insecure, legacy, and abandoned web apps are among the critical security issues that lead to data breaches of FT 500 US and EU companies as found out by High-Tech Bridge, a provider of Application Security Testing (AST) services.

High-Tech Bridge's study analyzed the 1,000 largest global companies from the US and the EU to collect data for their research, via a "large-scale discovery and non-intrusive assessment of their external web and mobile applications, SSL certificates, web software and unprotected cloud storage."

The research is based on information collected from systems accessible via HTTP/S protocols and not from network components that could be discovered with the help of IoT search engines such as Shodan.