This is a summary of vulnerability trends observed and investigated by the eSentire Security Operations Center (SOC) in 1H 2019.

This key findings’ report contains a synopsis of trends on how health systems are scaling innovation and a look-ahead at what the innovation perspectives and strategies of today may mean for the health systems tomorrow. It is structured to provide action items for efficient scaling of innovation at health systems followed by supporting findings.

This technical whitepaper explains the challenges cybersecurity professionals face, how they’re prioritizing vulnerabilities today and how they can dramatically improve cyber risk management with Predictive Prioritization – the process of re-prioritizing vulnerabilities based on the probability that they will be leveraged in an attack.

This Spotlight report provides in-depth analysis of vulnerabilities and weaponization patterns across the entire family of Adobe products. By focusing on weaponization, we go beyond simply counting vulnerabilities, and instead reveal how popular software from a leading vendor becomes a beacon for attackers. A significant number of these vulnerabilities are exploitable and have remote code execution capabilities, changing their status from a potential threat to an active and live cyber risk exposure point. While our findings naturally focus on the most recent data, the report includes more than 20 years of data from 1996 through 2018, allowing us to see long-term trends.

Automation balances machine-based analysis with human-based domain knowledge to help organizations achieve optimal workflows in the face of staff shortages and alert fatigue, all caused by an increasing number of destructive threats. Yet, 59% of survey respondents indicate that their organizations use low levels or no automation of key security and incident response (IR) tasks. In this new SANS survey, we wanted to understand and explore some of the misconceptions versus facts around automation and what to do about it.

CyberGRX and Ponemon Institute surveyed over 600 IT security professionals to learn more about the cost and efficacy of the tools and processes used to conduct third-party cyber risk management today. The survey respondents come from a variety of industries and are all involved in managing their organizations’ third-party cyber risk management programs (TPCRM). All organizations represented in the study have TPCRM programs and believe it is critical to have cybersecurity risk management controls in place

From the report, ““Realized coverage & efficiency vary greatly among firms—over 50% between top and bottom performers—indicating different remediation strategies lead to very different outcomes.” Where is your strategy leading?” Read on to find out more.

The essays in this eBook provide a wealth of information and present an inside look at an aspect of cybersecurity that is still not well understood. I am certain that anyone responsible for critical industrial operations will benefit from the advice and experiences of those who have contributed to this eBook.

This report takes an inside look at Industrial Control Systems and the need for them to be updated for the new Cyber Security Threats.

This document will examine the cyber risk trends that are of concern to the insurance industry, and introduce the RiskSense solution designed to address these challenges

NopSec has pioneered the research, measurement, and analytics of vulnerability threats since 2013. Its annual State of Vulnerability Risk Management reports are widely used and cited in the cybersecurity industry for its insights and actionable information. As presented in this report, vulnerability threats are ever more expanding and evolving, and NopSec is once again leading the research for new ways to expose these threats and protect valuable assets from getting compromised.

From the report, “Business applications are critical business resources for companies of all sizes — and they’re increasingly under attack. To gain deeper insights into the state of application security, Cybersecurity Insiders conducted an in-depth study in partnership with the 400,000 member Information Security Community on LinkedIn. This report is the result of a comprehensive survey of 437 cybersecurity professionals designed to reveal the latest application security trends, how organizations are protecting applications, and what tools and best practices IT cybersecurity teams are prioritizing to find, fix and prevent vulnerabilities in next-gen applications.”

This report measures the difference in days between when an exploit for a vulnerability becomes publicly available (Time to Exploit Availability) and when a vulnerability is first assessed (Time to Assess). A negative delta indicates that the attacker has an opportunity to exploit a vulnerability before the defender is even aware of the risk. The sample set used for this analysis is based on the 50 most prevalent vulnerabilities from nearly 200,000 unique vulnerability assessment scans.

In this report we analyze real-world end-user vulnerability assessment (VA) behavior using a machine learning (ML) algorithm to identify four distinct strategies, or “styles.” These are based on five VA key performance indicators (KPIs) which correlate to VA maturity characteristics. This study specifically focuses on key performance indicators associated with the Discover and Assess stages of the five-phase Cyber Exposure Lifecycle. During the first phase – Discover – assets are identified and mapped for visibility across any computing environment. The second phase – Assess – involves understanding the state of all assets, including vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and other health indicators. While these are only two phases of a longer process, together they decisively determine the scope and pace of subsequent phases, such as prioritization and remediation. The actual behavior of each individual enterprise in the data set, in reality, exhibits a mixture of all VA Styles. For the purposes of this work, enterprises are assigned to the specific style group with which they most closely align. We provide the global distribution of VA Styles, as well as a distribution across major industry verticals.

This report takes a look at the threat intelligence of organizations surveyed in 2018. Among the key findings of the report are that organizations are leveraging threat intelligence data for a number of use cases, and many rate themselves fairly competent in their use of threat intelligence to identify and remediate cyber threats.

The 2019 SIEM Survey Report represents one of the most comprehensive surveys on SIEM to date, designed to explore the latest trends, key challenges, and solution preferences for SIEM.

The 2019 SIEM Survey Report represents one of the most comprehensive surveys on SIEM to date, designed to explore the latest trends, key challenges, and solution preferences for SIEM.

This report offers insight into digital threat intelligence management.

Osterman Research conducted an in-depth survey of decision makers and influencers. To qualify for the survey, individuals had to be knowledgeable about the security operations in their organizations and their organizations had to have at least 1,000 employees. A total of 404 surveys were conducted during June and July 2018. This white paper discusses the results of that research and our analysis of the survey data.

In the summer of 2018, AT&T Business and Spiceworks performed a research study with 250 IT leaders. The research revealed that 99% of organizations have a security risk management strategy. However, there is a sharp performance divide between the organizations confident in their risk management strategies (42% called the “Confident Investors”) and organizations who are not (57% called the “Unconfident Investors”).

The goal of this white paper is to bring clarity to cyber threat intelligence. It explains the different categories of CTI and discusses some use cases to illustrate ways it can be applied and utilized to augment security teams’ efficiency and gain an edge over the attackers. Finally, it discusses CrowdStrike’s approach to threat intelligence.