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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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3/1/2017 | 9:39:26 AM
Many of these jobs do require computer science/programming skills but the Universities are just now coming into that but from what I can tell it's still very much cyber security/information assurance vs coding.
Only your true programmers will shell out 2500.00 or more for an ISACA cert. I've been an ISSO for around fifteen years now and working on a Masters in a similar field and do not wish to do pentesting but can do physical security/ end user and sys admin cyber training, systems security as far as defense but it seems many businesses are wanting the all in one. I'm sure there are a few out there but they command a much higher salary than I'm seeing advertised.
Why not have the CISO and then branch out from there, for your policy, defense, pentest, ISSO.