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The 10 Most Impactful Types of Vulnerabilities for Enterprises TodayManaging system vulnerabilities is one of the old est - and most frustrating - security challenges that enterprise defenders face. Every software application and hardware device ships with intrinsic flaws - flaws that, if critical enough, attackers can exploit from anywhere in the world. It's crucial that defenders take stock of what areas of the tech stack have the most emerging, and critical, vulnerabilities they must manage. It's not just zero day vulnerabilities. Consider that CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog lists vulnerabilitlies in widely used applications that are "actively exploited," and most of them are flaws that were discovered several years ago and have been fixed. There are also emerging vulnerabilities in 5G networks, cloud infrastructure, Edge applications, and firmwares to consider.
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4/17/2014 | 10:29:24 AM
In my security training, we were taught not to give away any unnessary information that tells an attacker how the system works. That header information you mention would be a big no-no. So are exception traces that emit to the end-user. Error messages are there to help the user, but should avoid giving away too much system design information. One might argue that this is also security by obscurity. I would disagree. A system might have many vulnerabilities that are 'unknown' until an attack is crafted that bypasses the security I've set up. The less I tell an attacker about my system, the less likely that they can find those 'open' doors between the time an attack is discovered and the time I can patch my system.
We sometimes tend to forget that our 'bad guys' are using computers too. They have invested in automation and the more we 'follow convention', the easier it is for them to try their 'key' in thousands of virtual doors.