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Although guidance from the White House and CISA advising on this heightened risk for U.S. businesses and the increase in the proposed budget for cybersecurity within the federal government signals that more resources are needed to properly defend against these risks, this does not necessarily translate to more IT budget or security staff within most organizations in the private sector. Prioritizing the modernization of aging technology stacks will be essential to mitigate rising cybersecurity vulnerabilities and ensure the security of the organization's critical systems and applications from malicious cyber campaigns.

Whether it's through stolen credentials, phishing attacks, or simply user errors, people continue to pose the greatest risk to cybersecurity. While behavioral attacks are nothing new, Verizon's recently released Data Breach Investigations Report shows that it's as bad as ever, with 82% of breaches in the report involving a human element.

In this Help Net Security video, Etai Hochman, CTO at Mirato, talks about Shift Left, a concept that means to find and prevent defects early in the software delivery process. Shifting application security left to engage developers earlier in the software development lifecycle results in faster fixes and less wasted energy prioritizing and fixing vulnerabilities that pose little to no risk.

In the traditional vulnerability management process, the definition of a vulnerability is straightforward, "A CVE or a Software Vulnerability." CVEs are important to be managed; however, it is not sufficient to deal with the complex attack surface. Advanced Vulnerability Management provides a broader approach to vulnerabilities and addresses different security risks in the IT vulnerability landscape.

Bitwarden announced the results of a global survey of enterprise security decision makers, conducted by 451 Research, which explores enterprise password management practices and intent. Weak passwords are vulnerable to password theft or compromise, which has led the enterprise to complement passwords with strategies such as OTP, email verification codes, SMS, or biometric factors.

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details about 15 security flaws in Siemens SINEC network management system, some of which could be chained by an attacker to achieve remote code execution on affected systems. "The vulnerabilities, if exploited, pose a number of risks to Siemens devices on the network including denial-of-service attacks, credential leaks, and remote code execution in certain circumstances," industrial security company Claroty said in a new report.

Automate Workflows - Qflow technology, built into the Qualys Cloud Platform, delivers drag and drop visual workflows to automate time-consuming and complex vulnerability management tasks such as performing vulnerability assessments for ephemeral cloud assets as they are launched or alerting for high profile threats or quarantine high-risk assets saving valuable resources and time. With the VMDR 1.0 introduction in 2020, Qualys brought the four core elements of vulnerability management into a seamless workflow to help organizations efficiently respond to threats.

The notorious Conti ransomware gang has working proof-of-concept code to exploit low-level Intel firmware vulnerabilities, according to Eclypsium researchers. Recently leaked Conti documents show the criminals developed the software more than nine months ago, and this is important because exploiting these kinds of weaknesses expands the extend and depth of an intrusion, the firmware security shop's analysis noted.

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Attack surface management is only the beginning of a notable shift toward an offensive-or proactive-security approach. A proactive approach to security means that you must see your entire attack surface like an attacker sees it.