Indusface, a provider of application security solutions for web and mobile applications, has outlined some website security statistics from India.
- Database breach is easier.
- Cross-site scripting is abundant.
- Most organizations are not testing their applications.
- Application patching is procrastinated.
Other key India-centric facts
- 91% of the websites that IndusGuard web application scanner tested had SQL Injection vulnerability
- 97% were prone to Cross-Site Scripting attacks
- SQL Injection and Sensitive Information Leakage by web application breach have increased significantly
- More than 10 million internet shoppers, growing yearly by 30%, luring cybercrimes
- 185 million active mobile internet users with 243% growth, a platform which is highly vulnerable
- 58% attacks are for financial gains and 42% by foreign governments
- 155. GOV and NIC domains were hacked last year
- 32,323 public Indian website were hacked in 2014 with 14% Y-o-Y increase
“Attacks on Layer 7 are definitely going to increase primarily because of its public-facing nature. We have already witness giants of the West falling to these breaches and it’s about time to raise the concern bar before something major happens in the subcontinent.” adds VenkateshSundar, CTO at Indusface.