"Despite massive security investments by the industry, vulnerabilities are still rising and increasing manifold. It seems that the industry's security improvements are either nullified by the ever increasing complexity of their products, or that the current state of the industry represents an economic equilibrium between security investments by vendors and the level of insecurity that is acceptable in the market," the Secunia report read.
"As a result of this, there is a continued need for private and corporate users of software to properly handle vulnerability information and remediation in order to manage and reduce the associated risks."
A fire in the eye of the storm
Despite Secunia's concerns, and despite its own figures showing 95 per cent of organisations had security holes ready to be exploited, FireEye said vendors were doing as much as they could in helping with patching.
"The vendors are doing pretty much as much as they can given the tools and the way their products are built to work," James Todd, European technical lead at FireEye, told IT Pro.
"The challenge for the future is how can people start building products which don't have the obviously inherent, easily exploited flaws?
It is clear patching remains an issue for customers still, Todd said. "Patching isn't something that people feel like they can truly get on top of," Todd added.
