Murciano-Goroff, Raviv; Zhuo, Ran; Greenstein, Shane M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
How prevalent are severe software vulnerabilities, how fast do software users respond to the availability of secure … updates, tracking server software updates by over 150,000 medium and large U.S. organizations between 2000 and 2018, this … study finds widespread usage of server software with known vulnerabilities, with 57% of organizations using software with …