Security News > 2024 > January > The effect of omission bias on vulnerability management

One of these is the omission bias, which has interesting ramifications in the world of cyber security, specifically vulnerability management.

In this article, we discuss omission bias in vulnerability management, particularly vulnerability remediation, and how IT operators can overcome it with today's new management platforms.

Cybersecurity offers us a classic example of omission bias, specifically in vulnerability management.

Overcoming omission bias in vulnerability remediation.

In the case of vulnerability remediation, overcoming that bias about individual patches requires information about the safety of those patches on other networks - information that's difficult or even impossible to come by via traditional communication channels like Reddit or Discord communities.

The designers of these new vulnerability management platforms are guided by an aspiration to overcome patching omission bias by providing the data necessary - in an easily accessible and consolidated form - to convince long-suffering IT practitioners that patching is not only foundational to an effective cyber security program, but much less disruptive than it's often perceived to be.

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https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/01/24/vulnerability-management-omission-bias/