The Practitioner’s Guide to Vulnerability Management: Implementing a Risk-Based Approach

The Practitioner’s Guide to Vulnerability Management: Implementing a Risk-Based Approach

A scalable, high-quality vulnerability management program (VMP) accounts for volatility and exploitability by first focusing on issues that affect critical assets, rather than attempting to patch top-down. The post The Practitioner’s Guide ...

CISA Adds Five ‘New’ Exploits to KEV Catalog, Including 2014’s Heartbleed Vulnerability

On May 4, 2022, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added five “new” vulnerabilities to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog. Three of the entries were originally disclosed in 2014, including ...
CISA’s Joint Cybersecurity Advisory: Protecting Your Organization From Vulnerabilities – and 29,000 Other Known Exploits

CISA’s Joint Cybersecurity Advisory: Protecting Your Organization From Vulnerabilities – and 29,000 Other Known Exploits

Some of the world’s leading cybersecurity authorities banded together to co-author the Joint Cybersecurity Advisory: 2021 Top Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities, where they provided details on CVE vulnerabilities that have been routinely exploited ...
1,701 New Vulnerabilities: Vulnerability Intelligence Infographic, March 2022: Key Trends and Analysis

1,701 New Vulnerabilities: Vulnerability Intelligence Infographic, March 2022: Key Trends and Analysis

According to Risk Based Security, a Flashpoint company, 1,701 new vulnerabilities were disclosed last month, with 22 percent (382) of them missed by CVE/NVD. Here are some things you should know about ...
Why the Full Vulnerability Intelligence Picture Depends on Data Beyond CVE/NVD

Why the Full Vulnerability Intelligence Picture Depends on Data Beyond CVE/NVD

If your risk models are missing nearly one-third of all known vulnerabilities, are they effective? The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database has become the unofficial “official” source for disclosed vulnerabilities. Nearly ...

What Is SpringShell? What We Know About the SpringShell Vulnerability

Flashpoint and Risk Based Security have analyzed a new remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability looming in the background, dubbed “SpringShell,” which could affect a wide variety of software. In some circles, SpringShell ...
New Report From Flashpoint and Risk Based Security Finds 22 Billion Records Exposed in 2021 Data Breaches

New Report From Flashpoint and Risk Based Security Finds 22 Billion Records Exposed in 2021 Data Breaches

Today, Risk Based Security’s annual Data Breach QuickView Report was released, from Inga Goddijn, Executive Vice President of RBS, and featuring quantitative research from Ashley Allocca, Cybersecurity Intelligence Analyst at Flashpoint. Powered ...