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Why we must go beyond tooling and CVEs to illuminate security blind spots

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Why we must go beyond tooling and CVEs to illuminate security blind spots 2025-07-18 at 09:41 By Help Net Security In April, the cybersecurity community held its breath as the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program was plunged into a moment of existential crisis. In the end, an eleventh-hour reprieve saved the day. While CVEs […]

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Empirical Security Raises $12 Million for AI-Driven Vulnerability Management

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Empirical Security Raises $12 Million for AI-Driven Vulnerability Management 2025-07-17 at 16:20 By Ionut Arghire Cybersecurity startup Empirical Security has raised $12 million in seed funding for its vulnerability management platform. The post Empirical Security Raises $12 Million for AI-Driven Vulnerability Management appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original

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Exposure management is the answer to: “Am I working on the right things?”

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Exposure management is the answer to: “Am I working on the right things?” 2025-07-08 at 09:07 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Dan DeCloss, Founder and CTO at PlexTrac, discusses the role of exposure management in cybersecurity and how it helps organizations gain visibility into their attack surface to improve risk assessment

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Exposed and unaware? Smart buildings need smarter risk controls

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Exposed and unaware? Smart buildings need smarter risk controls 2025-07-04 at 08:01 By Help Net Security 75% of organizations have building management systems (BMS) affected by known exploited vulnerabilities (KEVs), according to Claroty. The post Exposed and unaware? Smart buildings need smarter risk controls appeared first on Help Net Security. This article is an excerpt

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48% of security pros are falling behind compliance requirements

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48% of security pros are falling behind compliance requirements 2025-06-02 at 07:07 By Help Net Security 32% of security professionals think they can deliver zero-vulnerability software despite rising threats and compliance regulations, according to Lineaje. Meanwhile, 68% are more realistic, noting they feel uncertain about achieving this near impossible outcome. Software compliance adoption varies across

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NIST proposes new metric to gauge exploited vulnerabilities

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NIST proposes new metric to gauge exploited vulnerabilities 2025-05-26 at 08:06 By Help Net Security NIST has introduced a new way to estimate which software vulnerabilities have likely been exploited, and it’s calling on the cybersecurity community to help improve and validate the method. The new metric, “Likely Exploited Vulnerabilities” (LEV), aims to close a

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EU Cybersecurity Agency ENISA Launches European Vulnerability Database

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EU Cybersecurity Agency ENISA Launches European Vulnerability Database 2025-05-14 at 15:02 By Eduard Kovacs Experts say the European Vulnerability Database, or EUVD, should be a good resource, but only if ENISA manages to maintain it properly. The post EU Cybersecurity Agency ENISA Launches European Vulnerability Database appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt

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What a future without CVEs means for cyber defense

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What a future without CVEs means for cyber defense 2025-05-06 at 11:31 By Help Net Security The importance of the MITRE-run Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Program shouldn’t be understated. For 25 years, it has acted as the point of reference for cybersecurity professionals to understand and mitigate security flaws. By providing a standardized method

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What it really takes to build a resilient cyber program

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What it really takes to build a resilient cyber program 2025-05-06 at 08:32 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Dylan Owen, CISO at Nightwing, talks about what it really takes to build an effective defense: choosing the right frameworks, setting up processes, and getting everyone on the same page. Drawing on both

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Review: Effective Vulnerability Management

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Review: Effective Vulnerability Management 2025-05-05 at 08:03 By Mirko Zorz Effective Vulnerability Management offers a view of a key part of cybersecurity, showing how practices, tools, and processes can help organizations reduce risk. About the authors Chris Hughes is the President of Aquia, a cybersecurity leader with 20 years of public and private sector experience,

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Investing in security? It’s not helping you fix what matters faster

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Investing in security? It’s not helping you fix what matters faster 2025-04-29 at 07:30 By Help Net Security Automation and structured collaboration have a strong, positive influence on the efficiency of vulnerability management, according to Seemplicity. However, manual processes, unstructured workflows, and excessive noise from vulnerability scanning tools continue to slow remediation efforts, leading to

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Securing digital products under the Cyber Resilience Act

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Securing digital products under the Cyber Resilience Act 2025-04-18 at 08:37 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Dr. Dag Flachet, co-founder at Codific, explains what the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) means for companies and how it compares to GDPR in terms of regulatory complexity and impact on organizations. He discusses the technical

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Microsoft vulnerabilities: What’s improved, what’s at risk

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Microsoft vulnerabilities: What’s improved, what’s at risk 2025-04-17 at 08:02 By Help Net Security Microsoft reported a record 1,360 vulnerabilities in 2024, according to the latest BeyondTrust Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report. The volume marks an 11% increase from the previous record in 2022 and fits within a broader post-pandemic trend: more vulnerabilities, more products, and more

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Funding uncertainty may spell the end of MITRE’s CVE program

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Funding uncertainty may spell the end of MITRE’s CVE program 2025-04-16 at 14:56 By Zeljka Zorz The future of the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program hangs in the balance: MITRE, the not-for-profit US organization that runs it, could lose the US federal funding that helps them maintain it. But others have been waiting in

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94% of firms say pentesting is essential, but few are doing it right

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94% of firms say pentesting is essential, but few are doing it right 2025-04-15 at 08:05 By Help Net Security Organizations are fixing less than half of all exploitable vulnerabilities, with just 21% of GenAI app flaws being resolved, according to Cobalt. Big firms take longer to fix pentest issues 94% of firms view pentesting

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Only 2-5% of application security alerts require immediate action

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Only 2-5% of application security alerts require immediate action 2025-03-31 at 07:51 By Help Net Security The large volume of security alerts, many created by automated tools, is overwhelming security and development teams, according to the 2025 Application Security Benchmark report by Ox Security. The report is based on an analysis of over 101 million

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Critical vulnerabilities remain unresolved due to prioritization gaps

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Critical vulnerabilities remain unresolved due to prioritization gaps 2025-01-16 at 06:19 By Help Net Security Fragmented data from multiple scanners, siloed risk scoring and poor cross-team collaboration are leaving organizations increasingly exposed to breaches, compliance failures and costly penalties, according to Swimlane. The relentless surge of vulnerabilities is pushing security teams to their limits, forcing

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Time for a change: Elevating developers’ security skills

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Time for a change: Elevating developers’ security skills 2025-01-13 at 06:07 By Help Net Security Organizations don’t know their software engineers’ security skills because they don’t assess them in the interview process. Trying to do that in an interview is challenging, of course, given the time it takes for a proper assessment. However, given the

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Critical ICS Vulnerabilities Uncovered in Weekly Vulnerability Report

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Critical ICS Vulnerabilities Uncovered in Weekly Vulnerability Report 2025-01-10 at 09:35 By Ashish Khaitan Overview This week’s ICS vulnerability report sheds light on multiple flaws detected between January 01, 2025, to January 07, 2025. The report offers crucial insights into the cybersecurity challenges faced by organizations. It draws attention to the vulnerabilities identified by the

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CISA Releases Two New Industrial Control Systems Advisories for 2025

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CISA Releases Two New Industrial Control Systems Advisories for 2025 2025-01-08 at 14:12 By Ashish Khaitan Overview The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released two critical Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories. These advisories, ICSA-25-007-01 and ICSA-25-007-02, aim to inform users and administrators about vulnerabilities in key ICS products. The goal is to mitigate potential

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