Chris Hughes and Nikki Robinson recently wrote the book Effective Vulnerability Management. Dale and Chris discuss the topic and book including:

• The definition and scope of vulnerabilities. It’s much more than coding errors that need patches.

• Are ICS protocols lacking authentication “vulnerabilities”

• The reality that most organizations have 100’s of thousands of unpatched vulnerabilities. Some statistics and will this change.

• Ways to prioritize what vulnerabilities you address.

• The SSVC decision tree approach that was introduced at S4 as Never, Next, Now

• Tooling … vulnerability management, software configuration, ticketing, remediation.

• And much more.

Links:

• Effective Vulnerability Management, https://www.amazon.com/Effective-Vulnerability-Management-Vulnerable-Ecosystem/dp/1394221207/

• Dale’s ICS-Patch Decision Tree, https://dale-peterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ICS-Patch-0_1.pdf