World on Track to See 20,000 Vulnerability Reports in 2020: Where Do You Start to Patch?

guest · Jul 22, 2020

World on Track to See 20,000 Vulnerability Reports in 2020: Where Do You Start to Patch?
Experts Predict Record 20,000 CVEs for 2020
July 22, 2020
https://www.cbronline.com/cybersecurity/protection/20000-vulnerability-reports-skybox/

A string of hugely high profile security vulnerabilities in July across widely used software from F5 Networks, Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP cast a fresh light on the challenges CISOs face in keeping enterprises defended.

Now a new report from California-based Skybox Security — a specialist in attack surface visibility — drives home the scale of the challenge, with the finding that there have been 9,799 unique vulnerability reports in the first half of 2020 alone; setting the world on track to see a record 20,000 vulnerabilities in 2020.
The first half volume of software security vulnerability reports is a 34% increase on last year’s 7,318.
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Critical–severity vulnerabilities make up 15 percent of all new reports, Skybox notes.

“Although organizations are naturally inclined to prioritize the remediation of critical– and high–severity vulnerabilities… this generic approach to prioritization could allow attackers to take advantage of any exposed medium vulnerabilities.”
Security programmes need to have established processes to “contextualize ulnerabilities
based on exposure, exploitability and other factors to keep remediation focused on critical risks”, Skybox emphasises:

“If a security program bases vulnerability prioritization solely on CVSS scores, it could waste resources patching a vulnerable asset protected by layers upon layers of defense–in–depth security controls.”
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Skybox: 2020 Vulnerability and Threat Trends Report

Mid-Year Update
The deluge of new vulnerabilities reported so far in 2020 need to be understood with knowledge of continuously changing internal and external factors.
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