The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) plays a pivotal role in safeguarding the cyber landscape. One of its key contributions is the CISA KEV (Known Exploited Vulnerabilities) catalogue, a comprehensive database that highlights the most exploitable vulnerabilities. This catalogue is not just a list; it’s a critical tool for vulnerability management and application security, providing actionable insights for organizations to prioritize their security measures. Aside from KEV a common publication with other partners is the Top routinely exploited vulnerabilities
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The KEV catalogue is a vital resource for vulnerability management and application security, offering a longitudinal perspective on top exploited vulnerabilities. Over the years, KEV has meticulously tracked and updated its database to reflect the evolving landscape of exploits. This historical data is invaluable for understanding trends in vulnerabilities that are most frequently exploited. For vulnerability management, this long-term monitoring helps organizations to prioritize their patching and security strategies based on historical exploit patterns. In the realm of application security, the catalogue’s historical data informs coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities that have shown a consistent pattern of being exploited. In essence, the KEV’s multi-year tracking provides a dynamic and evolving framework for identifying and addressing the most critical vulnerabilities, thereby enhancing both vulnerability management and application security.
A key feature of the KEV catalogue is its focus on the top products that are most vulnerable to exploits. For instance, products like Microsoft Exchange, Fortinet SSL VPNs, and Apache web servers frequently appear in the catalogue due to their susceptibility to specific vulnerabilities. By highlighting these products, KEV enables organizations to prioritize their security measures more effectively. This targeted approach is invaluable for vulnerability management, as it allows for the allocation of resources to the most critical areas, thereby reducing the attack surface. Explore how the data can help your organization vulnerability management and application security program
A key feature of the KEV catalogue is its focus on the top products that are most vulnerable to exploits. For instance, products like Microsoft Exchange, Fortinet SSL VPNs, and Apache web servers frequently appear in the catalogue due to their susceptibility to specific vulnerabilities. By highlighting these products, KEV enables organizations to prioritize their security measures more effectively. This targeted approach is invaluable for vulnerability management, as it allows for the allocation of resources to the most critical areas, thereby reducing the attack surface.
In the realm of application security, knowing which products are most often exploited provides insights into coding practices and configurations that need to be fortified. Essentially, KEV serves as a roadmap for organizations, guiding them to focus on the most vulnerable products and thereby enhance their overall security posture.Explore how the data can help your organization vulnerability management and application security program. For a deeper dive on EPSS and KEV refer to this article
A unique feature of CISA KEV is its categorization of vulnerabilities based on detailed product types, specifically Software and Operating Systems. For instance, vulnerabilities in software products like Microsoft Exchange or Adobe Flash are meticulously catalogued, allowing organizations to prioritize patching and other security measures. Similarly, operating systems like Windows or Linux are not left out; their vulnerabilities are also highlighted, enabling targeted security enhancements.
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Derek Fisher – Head of product security at a global fintech. Speaker, instructor, and author in application security.
Derek is an award winning author of a children’s book series in cybersecurity as well as the author of “The Application Security Handbook.” He is a university instructor at Temple University where he teaches software development security to undergraduate and graduate students. He is a speaker on topics in the cybersecurity space and has led teams, large and small, at organizations in the healthcare and financial industries. He has built and matured information security teams as well as implemented organizational information security strategies to reduce the organizations risk.
Derek got his start in the hardware engineering space where he learned about designing circuits and building assemblies for commercial and military applications. He later pursued a computer science degree in order to advance a career in software development. This is where Derek was introduced to cybersecurity and soon caught the bug. He found a mentor to help him grow in cybersecurity and then pursued a graduate degree in the subject.
Since then Derek has worked in the product security space as an architect and leader. He has led teams to deliver more secure software in organizations from multiple industries. His focus has been to raise the security awareness of the engineering organization while maintaining a practice of secure code development, delivery, and operations.
In his role, Jeevan handles a range of tasks, from architecting security solutions to collaborating with Engineering Leadership to address security vulnerabilities at scale and embed security into the fabric of the organization.
Jeevan Singh is the Director of Security Engineering at Rippling, with a background spanning various Engineering and Security leadership roles over the course of his career. He’s dedicated to the integration of security practices into software development, working to create a security-aware culture within organizations and imparting security best practices to the team.
In his role, Jeevan handles a range of tasks, from architecting security solutions to collaborating with Engineering Leadership to address security vulnerabilities at scale and embed security into the fabric of the organization.
James Berthoty has over ten years of experience across product and security domains. He founded Latio Tech to help companies find the right security tools for their needs without vendor bias.
Chris Romeo is a leading voice and thinker in application security, threat modeling, and security champions and the CEO of Devici and General Partner at Kerr Ventures. Chris hosts the award-winning “Application Security Podcast,” “The Security Table,” and “The Threat Modeling Podcast” and is a highly rated industry speaker and trainer, featured at the RSA Conference, the AppSec Village @ DefCon, OWASP Global AppSec, ISC2 Security Congress, InfoSec World and All Day DevOps. Chris founded Security Journey, a security education company, leading to an exit in 2022. Chris was the Chief Security Advocate at Cisco, spreading security knowledge through education and champion programs. Chris has twenty-six years of security experience, holding positions across the gamut, including application security, security engineering, incident response, and various Executive roles. Chris holds the CISSP and CSSLP certifications.
Jim Manico is the founder of Manicode Security, where he trains software developers on secure coding and security engineering. Jim is also the founder of Brakeman Security, Inc. and an investor/advisor for Signal Sciences. He is the author of Iron-Clad Java: Building Secure Web Applications (McGraw-Hill), a frequent speaker on secure software practices, and a member of the JavaOne Rockstar speaker community. Jim is also a volunteer for and former board member of the OWASP foundation.
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