Security News > 2023 > May > Fresh perspectives needed to manage growing vulnerabilities

The report offers a look back - and forward - at some of the most significant vulnerability patterns of the past year to help security and business leaders focus discovery, management, and remediation efforts on the riskiest vulnerabilities most likely to exist on their attack surface.

The report analyzed over 300,000 anonymized findings from thousands of pentest engagements, spanning more than 240,000 hours of testing, to identify the most prevalent vulnerabilities across various industries - which include healthcare, retail, finance, and manufacturing.

The trend across all three? Security teams need support prioritizing the increasing number of vulnerabilities present in their environment.

On average, the highest volume of critical and high severity vulnerabilities were discovered within the government and nonprofit industry.

On the contrary, insurance had the lowest volume of critical and high severity vulnerabilities.

Of the applications tested, web applications have a higher prevalence of high and critical vulnerabilities compared to mobile and thick applications.

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https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/05/26/netspi-2023-offensive-security-vision-report/