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What Matters Most: Remediating Vulnerabilities

NopSec

Scanning is an important part of a well-established vulnerability risk management program. Vulnerability scanners allow you to identify the threats and weaknesses in your network. You don’t want to spend your time going after minor issues when you could have bigger vulnerabilities just waiting to implode. Unified VRM 4.0

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Essential Cloud Security Tools for Effective DevSecOps

Veracode Security

Implementation of a DevSecOps approach is the most impactful key factor in the total cost of a data breach. Here are a handful of the most essential cloud security tools and what to look for in them to aid DevSecOps. Why it matters: open-source software (OSS) is handy, but it comes with a few catches.

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EPSS and Its Role in Cisco Vulnerability Management Risk Scoring

Cisco Security

In our March 2023 blog, “What is EPSS and Why Does It Matter?” , Michael Roytman, Distinguished Engineer at Cisco (former Chief Data Scientist at Kenna Security) and co-creator of EPSS, covers the role the Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS) plays in a security program. EPSS vs CVSS: What’s the Difference?

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From Scanners to Strategies: How Attack Surface Management Enhances Vulnerability Scanning 

NetSpi Executives

Vulnerability scanners help scan known assets, but what about the assets you don’t know exist? Why vulnerability scanners aren’t enough The issue lies in the fact that vulnerability scanners can only scan entities you tell them to. That’s where NetSPI ASM comes in.

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Author Q&A: Here’s why the good guys must continually test the limitations of ‘EDR’

The Last Watchdog

Emerging from traditional antivirus and endpoint protection platforms, EDR rose to the fore in the mid-2010s to improve upon the continuous monitoring of servers, desktops, laptops and mobile devices and put security teams in a better position to mitigate advanced threats, such as APTs and zero-day vulnerabilities.

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CISA catalog passes 1,000 known-to-be-exploited vulnerabilities. Celebration time, or is it?

Malwarebytes

On September 18, 2023, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced that its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog has reached the milestone of covering more than 1,000 vulnerabilities since its launch in November 2021. This is not as straightforward as it may seem.

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Explaining Threats, Threat Actors, Vulnerabilities, and Risk Using a Real-World Scenario

Daniel Miessler

threat actor = someone who wants to punch you in the face threat = the punch being thrown vulnerability = your inability to defend against the punch risk = the likelihood of getting punched in the face — cje (@caseyjohnellis) April 19, 2021. The Vulnerability is that you can’t currently move because you are being blindsided.

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