Vulnerability Management

VERT Threat Alert: September 2020 Patch Tuesday Analysis

Today’s VERT Alert addresses Microsoft’s September 2020 Security Updates. VERT is actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expects…

3 months ago

New CISO? Top 5 Things You Need to Know

Starting in a new role is always a challenge, and if it’s the position of a CISO, it’s likely that…

3 months ago

Identifying the Most Dangerous Common Software and Hardware Weaknesses and Vulnerabilities – The CWE Top 25 (2020 Edition)

So far, there has not been a perfect solution to ridding the world of software and hardware weaknesses. Keeping up-to-date…

3 months ago

How to Strike Gold in the Land of Continuous Security

This is our fourth installment of a six-part series dedicated to helping CISOs establish and maintain a successful application… The…

4 months ago

Top 9 Vulnerabilities With No Assigned CVE Number

The acronym CVE has become synonymous with vulnerability. And perhaps rightly so – it’s a convenient, unique identifier that makes…

4 months ago

6 Factors to Consider in Evaluating CVE Importance

You just finished reviewing the latest report from your vulnerability scanner and surprise, surprise, way more vulnerabilities reported than your…

4 months ago

Exploited in the Wild, It Took Microsoft 734 Days to Patch this Vulnerability

On August 5, 2018, a malware sample, now known as Glueball (CVE-2020-1464), targeting Microsoft Windows was uploaded to VirusTotal. Upon…

4 months ago

Making Infosec Jobs Easier: Preventing Ransomware

This is post 8 in our series on making infosec jobs easier and covers threat hunting. You can read the…

4 months ago

Effective Threat Intelligence Through Vulnerability Analysis

Vulnerabilities are weaknesses leveraged by adversaries to compromise the confidentiality, availability or integrity of a resource. The vulnerability ecosystem has matured…

5 months ago

Making Infosec Jobs Easier: Keeping Systems Patched

This is post 3 in our ongoing blog series on making infosec jobs easier. The first post covered the job…

5 months ago