Modernizing Vulnerability Management: The Move Toward Exposure Management

Managing vulnerabilities in the constantly evolving technological landscape is a difficult task. Although vulnerabilities emerge regularly, not all vulnerabilities present the same level of risk. Traditional metrics such as CVSS score or the number of vulnerabilities are insufficient for effectiv...

Modernizing Vulnerability Management: The Move Toward Exposure Management

Managing vulnerabilities in the constantly evolving technological landscape is a difficult task. Although vulnerabilities emerge regularly, not all vulnerabilities present the same level of risk. Traditional metrics such as CVSS score or the number of vulnerabilities are insufficient for effectiv...

CVE-2022-29944

An issue was discovered in ONOS 2.5.1. There is an incorrect comparison of paths installed by intents. An existing intents does not redirect to a new path, even if a new intent that shares the path with higher priority is installed...

[eBook] A Step-by-Step Guide to Cyber Risk Assessment

In today's perilous cyber risk landscape, CISOs and CIOs must defend their organizations against relentless cyber threats, including ransomware, phishing, attacks on infrastructure, supply chain breaches, malicious insiders, and much more. Yet at the same time, security leaders are also under...

Using InsightVM Remediation Projects To Ensure Accountability

One benefit of InsightVM reporting is that it enables security teams to build accountability into remediation projects. There are a number of ways this can be accomplished and the approach you take will be dictated by your organization’s specific structure and needs. In this blog, we’ll look at t...

Partnering and prioritization: Lessons learned when building security operations at hyperspeed

CISOs share their experiences ensuring security in fast-growth environments...

Malware targeting SonicWall devices could survive firmware updates

Researchers at Mandiant have identified a malware campaign targeting SonicWall SMA 100 Series appliances, thought to be of Chinese origin. The malware was likely deployed in 2021, and was able to persist on the appliances tenaciously, even surviving firmware upgrades. The malware was able to stea...

Don’t forget about risk remediation of your macOS assets

Employees love for Macs has propelled tremendous growth for Apple. According to a recent study by Parallels, 55% of businesses use Mac devices themselves or explicitly approve of their use within the company. It is hard to believe Macs have been around for almost 4 decades. Largely introduced to...

Good, Perfect, Best: how the analyst can enhance penetration testing results

Penetration testing is something that many of those who know what a pentest is see as a search for weak spots and well-known vulnerabilities in clients infrastructure, and a bunch of copied-and-pasted recommendations on how to deal with the security holes thus discovered. In truth, it is not so...

A Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Guide for Leaders

Cybersecurity risk assessment provides the continuous asset detection, analysis, prioritization, and risk scoring needed to keep pace with a continuously growing digital attack surface...

Year in Review: Rapid7 Threat Intelligence

In an evolving threat landscape, non-stop alerts and more IOC feeds don’t guarantee better protection. Security teams are overwhelmed and struggle to identify relevant threat information. Thankfully, Threat Command delivers highly contextual alerts and integration across your environment to help...

Empowering CTEM Program with Contextualized Vulnerability Prioritization

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Patch Where it Hurts: Effective Vulnerability Management in 2023

A recently published Security Navigator report data shows that businesses are still taking 215 days to patch a reported vulnerability. Even for critical vulnerabilities, it generally takes more than 6 months to patch. Good vulnerability management is not about being fast enough in patching all...

Patch Where it Hurts: Effective Vulnerability Management in 2023

A recently published Security Navigator report data shows that businesses are still taking 215 days to patch a reported vulnerability. Even for critical vulnerabilities, it generally takes more than 6 months to patch. Good vulnerability management is not about being fast enough in patching all...

Implement Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with Qualys TruRisk™: Part 3

In this final blog of the series, we will discuss the importance of implementing effective risk-based remediation strategies to reduce the risk of vulnerabilities being exploited in your environment. In the earlier blogs, we covered how to operationalize Qualys TruRisk and to effectively visualiz...

Implement Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with Qualys TruRisk™ : Part 2

This blog is a continuation of our first blog on implementing risk-based vulnerability management with Qualys TruRiskTM. In the first blog, we covered how to correctly tag and categorize assets for accurate risk assessment. Now that you have properly tagged your assets, Qualys TruRiskTM will...

Protect Your Network with Zero-Day Threat Protection

Explore the world of zero-day threats and gain valuable insight into the importance of proactive detection and remediation. Learn how Trend Micro™ Research mitigates risk by providing global cybersecurity intelligence to continuously discover the ever-changing attack surface, understand and...

Effective Vulnerability Management with Stakeholder Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC) and Qualys TruRisk

Security stakeholders across the globe have long relied on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS to prioritize vulnerabilities and assess their risk posture. The reason why the CVSS has become the standard for many security and vulnerability management teams alike is that this method is ea...

Reducing Risk In The Cloud with Agentless Vulnerability Management

In order to gain visibility into vulnerabilities in their public cloud environments, many organizations still rely on agent or network-based scanning technology that was initially built for traditional infrastructure and endpoints. These methods often struggle to keep up with the speed of change...

QSC 2022: Listening to the Voice of the Customer

It would be redundant to state that today’s threat landscape is growing increasingly sophisticated and erratic. With all types of attacks becoming “commonplace,” the baseline for normal is abnormal. Bad actors are taking advantage of whatever attack vector they can whether that is a phishing...