Flashpoint has released The State of Vulnerability Intelligence: 2022 Midyear Edition, finding that the current state of the vulnerability disclosure landscape is ‘highly volatile’.
The company says that this has meant standard das are potentially introducing volumes generally only seen on Patch Tuesdays and other similar events.
The report has been released at a time when there is increasing pressure on security teams to remediate tens of thousands of vulnerabilities every year with limited resources.
It contains valuable insights to help organisations develop a robust understanding of the areas that need work.
Flashpoint notes that with new problems being discovered daily, businesses are having difficulty making workloads manageable, and as a result, vulnerabilities are not being reported correctly.
Of the 11,860 vulnerabilities collected throughout the first six months of 2022, Flashpoint saw that 27.3% went unreported.
Further, publicly available data is uncontextualised, often missing valuable metadata, which Flashpoint says can result in security teams not having an accurate picture of their priorities or remediation process.
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