Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

If an endpoint goes ping but isn't on the network, does anyone hear it? Partner content Recently, I've been diving deep into security control data across dozens of organizations, and what I've found has been both fascinating and alarming. Most security teams I work with can rattle off their vulnerability management statistics with confidence. They know their scan schedules, their remediation timelines, and their critical vulnerability counts. They point to clean dashboards and comprehensive reports as proof that their programs are working.…

How Adversarial Exposure Validation is changing the way we approach vulnerability management Partner content Two decades ago, CVSS revolutionized vulnerability management, enabling security teams to speak a common language when measuring and prioritizing risks posed by the vulnerability to the affected asset. However, today, the same tool that once guided us in the right direction is holding us back.…

Because vulnerability management has nothing to do with national security, right? US government funding for the world's CVE program – the centralized Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database of product security flaws – ends Wednesday.…