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Why Pausing to Understand Context is Better than Racing to Respond to CVEs
Security still labors under a big misassumption; if we can stay on top of every alert, we’ll be safe. Unfortunately, things are no longer that simple. Managing Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) can feel like one big game of Whack-a-Mole: as soon as you’ve got one, another pops up. Even when you do catch up, asset sprawl, dark web threats, and a lack of visibility on misconfigurations can lead to breaches, regardless of having addressed every alert from your vulnerability scanner. The reality is that risky exposures come in many different forms; CVEs are just one of them. If modern
Security still labors under a big misassumption; if we can stay on top of every alert, we’ll be safe. Unfortunately, things are no longer that simple. Managing Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) can feel like one big game of Whack-a-Mole: as soon as you’ve got one, another pops up. Even when you do catch up, asset sprawl, dark web threats, and a lack of visibility on misconfigurations can lead to breaches, regardless of having addressed every alert from your vulnerability scanner. The reality is that risky exposures come in many different forms; CVEs are just one of them. If modern enterprises are to keep pace, understanding context is key. That way, they can make decisions based on the threat that presents the greatest immediate danger to the business—not just the one that’s next on the list. And that’s the basis of exposure management in cybersecurity.
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