Less Risk Of Outside Attack

Gaining control of its software can also help ward off an external attack on a company’s IT systems, 1E says. The study cited such initiatives as Google’s Project Zero that publicize software vulnerabilities. Citing data from the Ponemon Institute’s Cost of Data Breach Study, which pegged the average cost of an intrusion at $3.5 million, “companies should be very concerned (about) their vulnerability to attack and their increasingly high security risk profile.”