Eoin & The Security

For the third year running Edgescan contributed to the Verizon DBiR . The DBiR is recognized as the defacto cyber report which casts a wide net across all types of cyber security and breaches, this includes vulnerability management in both infrastructure and applications. Edgescan vulnerability data is curated and validated, sanitized and reflects tens of thousands of assessments we deliver globally across the full stack to our clients. As stated by Gabriel Basset of Verizon " I think there’s a positive story around how vulnerability scanning, patching, and filtering are preventing exploiting vulns from being the easiest way to cause a breach but that asset management is needed to identify and patch unpatched systems... " A few things that stand out to me in the report are as follows: Nearly half of breaches involved Hacking and 70% of breaches were external threat actors. To me this makes sense as in our experience most large enterprises h...