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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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6/10/2017 | 1:02:34 PM
A user's security needs to be a vendor's first priority and community support forums are the bedrock of user security issues and concerns. For all the anger this particular configuration item generated since 2010 over multiple versions of Microsoft software, one finds it hard to understand how the feature in 2017 is still not buttoned down and causing users even more pain. Especially considering how widely available many exploit databases that had posts which may have predicted the latest thorn in our side.
On the flip side of this, the exploit reflects the creativity with which malicious coders approach problems and it serves as an example for companies like Microsoft that some elements of their product line may still be constricted by an outmoded development approach. Creative thinking, approaching a feature's requirements with security a primary development consideration and testing that feature before release with the same level of ingenuity Trojan developers write their code with...