What to Look for in an Exposure Management Platform (And What Most of Them Get Wrong)

Every security team has a version of the same story. The quarter ends with hundreds of vulnerabilities closed. The dashboards are bursting with green. Then someone in a leadership meeting asks: "So, are we actually safer now?" Crickets. The room goes quiet because an honest answer requires contex...

The Best Vulnerability Scanning Tools for 2026: A Complete Guide

Your vulnerability scanner found 14,000 issues last quarter. Your team patched 800. The other 13,200 are sitting in a spreadsheet that nobody opens anymore. This is the reality for most security teams. The scanner works. It finds vulnerabilities. But without context, prioritization, or a clear pa...

Position: Certified Robustness Does Not (Yet) Imply Model Security

While certified robustness is widely promoted as a solution to adversarial examples in Artificial Intelligence systems, significant challenges remain before these techniques can be meaningfully deployed in real-world applications. We identify critical gaps in current research, including the parad...

Microsoft Windows: Shut down system immediately if unable to log security audits

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winauditshutdownunablelog.nasl 11532 2018-09-21 19:07:30Z cfischer $ Check value for Audit: Shut down system immediately if unable to log security audits Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks...

My short review of “The Forrester Wave: Vulnerability Risk Management, Q1 2018”

Last week, March 14, Forrester presented new report about Vulnerability Risk Management VRM market. You can purchase it on official site for $2495 USD or get a free reprint on Rapid7 site. Thanks, Rapid7! I've read it and what to share my impressions. I was most surprised by the leaders of the...

Protecting customers from being intimidated into making an unnecessary purchase

There has been an increase in free versions of programs that purport to scan computers for various errors, and then use alarming, coercive messages to scare customers into buying a premium version of the same program. The paid version of these programs, usually called cleaner or optimizer...

Protecting customers from being intimidated into making an unnecessary purchase

There has been an increase in free versions of programs that purport to scan computers for various errors, and then use alarming, coercive messages to scare customers into buying a premium version of the same program. The paid version of these programs, usually called cleaner or optimizer...

Google Releases Skipfish Application Security Scanner

Google has released its own Web application security scanner, called Skipfish. The free scanner is designed to work within a variety of existing Web application frameworks and is built with an emphasis on speed and low false-positives, the company said. Skipfish enters a crowded field of Web...

Check if client is in MSIT ring or in WSD Servicing rings

Evaluates to true if the RegKey matches MSIT ring or CBCanary or CBSelfhost or CBMicrosoft...