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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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1/14/2017 | 2:51:36 PM
1) If something is everybody's job, it's nobody's job. If employees whose primary tasks are to answer telephones or to do data entry or construct marketing plans or whatever engage in a cybersecurity failing, while there should be some remediation, instead of flogging the peasants, I propose punishing the generals -- and calling the CIO/CISO/etc. on the carpet -- because, ultimately, it's their failing. If the front-line employees aren't properly trained and properly acting on that training, it's the trainers' fault and the fault of the people responsible for that training to begin with.
2) In a heavy-handed "flog-the-peasants" environment, employees -- even managers -- will be reluctant at best to come forward if they violate a policy that then results in a potential data compromise. Consequently, there needs to be appropriate policy for this that doesn't use the stick so much as the carrot. (I've written on this, for example, here: enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netsysm/minimize-shadow-it-damage-by-encouraging-self-reporting.html ).