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To keep up with evolving attack methods, IT security teams need to stay one step ahead of cybercriminals.

Unfortunately, more than half of IT security teams say they are not taking basic security steps, such as patching their systems and running the latest versions of software, according to a survey of chief information security officers and security operations execs at 1,700 companies conducted by Cisco.

This is particularly evident in the case of Heartbleed, a bug that enables hackers to read encrypted data by exploiting vulnerable versions of OpenSSL software. Despite all of the publicity surrounding Heartbleed, which was discovered last April, a majority of OpenSSL versions are more than four years old and vulnerable to Heartbleed, says Cisco in its 2015 Annual Security Report.

IT teams are failing to take basic security steps, says Cisco survey