Security News > 2020 > January > Threatpost Poll: Are Published PoC Exploits a Good or Bad Idea?

The practice of disclosing proof-of-concept exploits has long caused a debate in the security community.

Just this past week, a slew of PoC exploits were published for various vulnerabilities, including ones for a recently patched crypto-spoofing vulnerability found by the National Security Agency and reported to Microsoft; and for critical flaws impacting the Cisco Data Center Network Manager tool for managing network platforms and switches.

Other PoC code was recently released for an unpatched remote-code-execution vulnerability in the Citrix Application Delivery Controller and Citrix Gateway products.

Are PoC exploit releases good or bad? Does it depend on the context? Do they make us safer? You can weigh in below with our Threatpost poll.

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