Integrating Threat and Vulnerability Management with Patch Management: The (Feasible) Quantum Leap

The rise of sophisticated attacks combined with the security-skills shortage have driven many organizations to go back to basics and review their processes for vulnerability and patch management. The approach is definitely a winning one, given that shrinking and managing the vulnerability surface...

PHDays 9: new methods of Vulnerability Prioritization in Vulnerability Management products

On May 21, I spoke at the PHDays 9 conference. I talked about new methods of Vulnerability Prioritization in the products of Vulnerability Management vendors. During my 15 minutes time slot I defined the problems that this new technology has to solve, showed why these problems could NOT be solved...

Boost Security with These Gartner-Recommended Projects

Is your security team struggling to decide which projects will slash risk the most without breaking the bank? If so, we believe your security leaders can end analysis paralysis by perusing Gartner’s “Top 10 Security Projects for 2019” report. As its title states, the report recommends ten securit...

Verizon’s DBIR Highlights Key Drivers of Security Risk

It’s that time of the year when Verizon updates us on the latest trends in the global threat landscape with its Data Breach Investigations Report DBIR. The findings in this year’s report are based on data provided by more than 70 sources including Qualys about more than 41,000 security incidents,...

Introducing the security configuration framework: A prioritized guide to hardening Windows 10

In the past, we left defining the security configuration for Windows 10 as a task for every customer to sort out. As a result, we saw as many different configurations as we saw customers. Standardization has many advantages, so we developed a security configuration framework to help simplify...

openSUSE Security Update : nextcloud (openSUSE-2019-640)

This update for nextcloud to version 13.0.5 fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : - CVE-2018-3780: Fixed a missing sanitization of search results for an autocomplete field that could lead to a stored XSS requiring user-interaction. The missing sanitization only affected user names,...

Martian Vulnerability Chronicles

Well, there should have been an optimistic post about my vulnerability analysis & classification pet-project. Something like "blah-blah-blah the situation is pretty bad, tons of vulnerabilities and it's not clear which of them can be used by attackers. BUT there is a way how to make it better usi...

Fedora 28 : lldpad (2018-cec7093baa)

Add upstream fix for improper sanitization of shell-escape codes when lldptool parses a mngAddr TLV CVE-2018-10932. - Add upstream patch to support DSCP selectors in APP TLVs. This allows configuration of DSCP-based packet prioritization on capable network devices. Note that Tenable Network...

Fedora 29 : lldpad (2018-06d56c8c9d)

Add upstream fix for improper sanitization of shell-escape codes when lldptool parses a mngAddr TLV CVE-2018-10932. - Add upstream patch to support DSCP selectors in APP TLVs. This allows configuration of DSCP-based packet prioritization on capable network devices. Note that Tenable Network...

CISO series: Strengthen your organizational immune system with cybersecurity hygiene

One of the things I love about my job is the time I get to spend with security professionals, learning firsthand about the challenges of managing security strategy and implementation day to day. There are certain themes that come up over and over in these conversations. My colleague Ken Malcolmso...

ACHE - A Web Crawler For Domain-Specific Search

ACHE is a focused web crawler. It collects web pages that satisfy some specific criteria, e.g., pages that belong to a given domain or that contain a user-specified pattern. ACHE differs from generic crawlers in sense that it uses page classifiers to distinguish between relevant and irrelevant...

Fedora 27 : lldpad (2018-e9d1ec6dbc)

Add upstream fix for improper sanitization of shell-escape codes when lldptool parses a mngAddr TLV CVE-2018-10932. - Add upstream patch to support DSCP selectors in APP TLVs. This allows configuration of DSCP-based packet prioritization on capable network devices. Note that Tenable Network...

CISO series: Lessons learned—4 priorities to achieve the largest security improvements

In my past life as CISO, Ive worked for small companies, state governments, and large enterprises, and one thing that has been true at all of them is that there is an infinite number of security initiatives in each organization you could implement, yet the resources to accomplish those tasks are...

Psychological Aspects of Vulnerability Remediation

In my opinion, Remediation is the most difficult part of Vulnerability Management process. If you know the assets in your organization and can assess them, you will sooner or later produce a good enough flow of critical vulnerabilities. But what the point, if the IT team will not fix them?...

Security update for nextcloud (moderate)

This update for nextcloud to version 13.0.5 fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2018-3780: Fixed a missing sanitization of search results for an autocomplete field that could lead to a stored XSS requiring user-interaction. The missing sanitization only affected user names,...

QSC18 Virtual Edition: Vulnerability Risk Management

When vulnerability risk management is proactive, organizations don’t have to hurriedly react to attacks that exploit bugs for which patches are available, as happened with WannaCry. “The vast majority of WannaCry remediation took place as an emergency type process,” Jimmy Graham, a Qualys Directo...

GDPR Is Here: Manage Vulnerabilities and Prioritize Threat Remediation

To provide the level of data protection required by the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR, your organization must continuously detect vulnerabilities, and prioritize their remediation. Why? An InfoSec team that’s chronically overwhelmed by its IT environment’s vulnerabilities and unabl...

How To Prioritize Vulnerabilities in a Modern IT Environment

Here’s a stat that shows the importance of prioritizing vulnerability remediation: Almost 30% of the CVEs disclosed in 2017 had a CVSS score of “High” or “Critical.” That works out to about 3,000 such vulnerabilities, or about 58 every week. Given this large number of severe vulnerabilities, it’s...

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...

Securing IT Assets By Prioritizing Protection And Remediation

As hackers get faster at weaponizing exploits for disclosed bugs, InfoSec teams need — more than ever — automated, continuous and precise IT asset inventorying, vulnerability management, threat prioritization and patch deployment. Critical vulnerabilities that linger unpatched for weeks or months...