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NIST cuts down CVE analysis amid vulnerability overload

Overwhelmed by an escalating volume of security flaws, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced significant changes to how it handles cybersecurity vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs). Rather than commit to providing enrichment for all entries in its National Vulnerability Database (NVD), the agency will focus on just the most critical CVEs, which…

NIST narrows scope of CVE analysis to keep up with rising tide of vulnerabilities

The federal agency tasked with analyzing security vulnerabilities is overwhelmed as it and other authorities struggle to keep pace with a flood of defects that grows every year. The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced Wednesday that it has capitulated to that deluge and narrowed the priorities for its National Vulnerability Database. NIST said…

Product Walkthrough: How Mesh CSMA Reveals and Breaks Attack Paths to Crown Jewels

Security teams today are not short on tools or data. They are overwhelmed by both.  Yet within the terabytes of alerts, exposures, and misconfigurations – security teams still struggle to understand context:  Q: Which exposures, misconfigurations, and vulnerabilities chain together to create viable attack paths to crown jewels? Even the most mature security teams can’t…

How AI is reshaping attack path analysis

Cybersecurity teams are overwhelmed with data and short on clarity, while adversaries use AI to move faster and operate at unprecedented scale. Most organizations collect enormous volumes of findings: vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, penetration test results, detection gaps, threat intelligence, and control assessments. Individually, these data points may be accurate, but they don’t always reflect the big…