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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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User Rank: Ninja
9/3/2014 | 9:56:28 AM
Here is what I think it will take to convince executive management to elevate the whole security agenda. Imagine a company breach that results in a total electronic data loss in their production environment. Think about that for a second - no sales because they have no idea what products they have, no working POS system, no customer data, nothing in the form of electronic data processing ... nothing. Nothing moves in the company until their DR plans kick in and achieve business continuity. Data breaches do not stop business from continuing operations, but a total data loss will. When that happens to a big name brand like Target or Home Depot, then company executives will realize that a new phase has arrived in the threat horizon. Data loss is a very scary scenario, but business stoppage is like a stake through the heart, difficult to recover from within a short time frame. I really hope it does not come to that, and that executives everywhere wake up and smell the coffee before that happens to them.