MIT Ranks Worst In IT Security Assessment

The Massachusetts institute for technology (known as MIT) is known throughout the world for its technological prowess and skills. Producing proud graduates, it is known for being at the forefront of the information technology that we as a world use on an everyday basis. Once again it has scored first, this time, however, this is not good news.

Conducted by Security Scorecard, an information security assessment company, the company tested an assessment for several high-value universities and nearly gave MIT a failing grade. MIT scored low in several areas, including; hacker chatter (this measures the number of times the school was mentioned in online forums used by hackers and the amount of user details that were revealed online on these forums), patching cadence (how quickly reported patches were applied to deal with the vulnerabilities reported during the scan’s period) and IP reputation (the amount of malware communications that were coming from IP’s registered with the school).

MIT did score high in several areas, though, such as its Web Application Security, the health of its DNS records and finally the quality of its security at its endpoints. As with all things security is not something that can be considered fixed and left alone, it should always be considered and updated.

Thank you Ars Technica for the information. 

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