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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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2/11/2021 | 9:42:40 AM
Having been in IT my entire adult life, I am always sobered by the endless number & variety of computing vulnerabilities that keep cropping up in my profession. It's a painful reminder that the Information Age, where information is supposed to be THE storehouse of economic value, is actually a Wild West free-for-all where theft of valuable data is almost a trivial problem. Certainly easier for the bad guys than actually robbing a bank or physically stealing blueprints for an innovative new product.
What this means for the future is that the real economic value is having the industrial infrastructure to create marketable products from stolen R&D files. And that radically shifts the global economic competitiveness paradigm, doesn't it.