Companies can safely delay patching the majority of their vulnerabilities, Kenna Security report finds

Ed Bellis, CTO at Kenna Security
“In our ongoing mission to apply the tenets of data science to cybersecurity, we have begun to benchmark the realities of vulnerability remediation strategies. We’ve found that remediating the riskiest vulnerabilities is within reach for many organizations. Despite recent high-profile data breaches, our findings show that enterprises can and should delay efforts to remediate a majority of vulnerabilities, which often number in the millions. Most vulnerabilities pose little to no danger of being exploited. That means companies can prioritize their resources to tackle the five percent of threats that pose the greatest risk.”

News Summary

Kenna Security, a leader in predictive cyber risk, today released the second volume of its ongoing analysis into the vulnerability landscape. The report, titled Prioritization to Prediction: Getting Real About Remediation, found that companies today appear to have the resources needed to address all of their high-risk vulnerabilities.

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