The Exploit Pipeline Just Went Autonomous.

& In February, I wrote about the breach zone — the gap between CVE disclosure and scanner signature. In April, I wrote that the breach zone became permanent when NIST stopped enriching the majority of CVEs. Both posts assumed the same ceiling: humans, working at human speed, are the bottleneck fo...

Updates to Layered Context Enable Teams to Quickly Understand Which Risk Signals Are Most Pressing

Layered Context introduced a consolidated view of all security risks insightCloudSec collects from the various layers of a cloud environment. This enabled our customers to go from visibility into individual security risks on a resource, to understanding all of the risks that impacted that resourc...

Risk Score 101: What to look for in a Risk Score

Editors Note: Monica White, a guest author on the Carbon Black blog, is the Director of Product Marketing at Kenna Security When we at Kenna Security originally looked at adding a risk score to enumerate vulnerability risk in VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload, we knew that Common Vulnerability...

In Fear of IoT Security

I wish I had a dime for every time I have heard someone say "With so many vulnerabilities being reported in the Internet of Things, I just dont trust that technology, so I avoid using any of it." I am left scratching my head because these same people seem to have no issues running a Windows...

Realistic Risk Assessment Key to Security Management

PUNTA CANA – Although it may not be the most thrilling part of a security team’s job, the idea of operational risk assessment and management is perhaps the most important aspect of organizational security. Steve Adegbite, senior vice president in charge of enterprise information security program...