LONDON , Nov. 07, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Edge EMEA -- Tenable®, Inc., the Cyber
Exposure company, today announced its Vulnerability Intelligence Report from Tenable Research, which provides an overview of real-world current
vulnerability trends and insights into how organizations assess and respond to the unrelenting barrage of new cyber risks. The
research found that enterprises identify 870 unique vulnerabilities on their systems every day, on average. Of those, more than 100
vulnerabilities are rated as critical on the common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) — an industry standard measurement.
Prioritization based solely on CVSS ratings is failing the industry and leaves organizations unable to effectively and confidently
focus on which vulnerabilities require immediate action.
The Vulnerability Intelligence Report’s findings confirm that managing vulnerabilities is a challenge of scale, volume and
velocity. The Tenable Research team analyzed anonymized data from 900,000 vulnerability assessments across 2,100 enterprises. The
team estimates that the industry is on track to disclose up to 19,000 new vulnerabilities in 2018, an increase of 27
percent over 2017. Yet in 2017, public exploits were available for seven percent of all vulnerabilities,
meaning that 93 percent of all vulnerabilities posed only theoretical risk. For most vulnerabilities, a working exploit is never
developed and of those, an even smaller subset is actively weaponized by threat actors, making it difficult to understand which
vulnerabilities to remediate first, if at all.
This lack of rigorous prioritization means that organizations are struggling to assess and manage more vulnerabilities than ever
and consequently, they are unable to make strategic technology decisions. For example, Adobe Flash will be unsupported from 2020
onward and is not commonly used in most enterprise environments. Yet Adobe Flash still lingers in enterprise environments and its
vulnerabilities represent half of the 20 most prevalent application vulnerabilities in enterprise environments.
“When everything is urgent, triage fails. As an industry, we need to realize that effective reduction in cyber risk starts with
effective prioritization of issues,” said Tom Parsons, senior director of product management, Tenable. “To keep up with the current
volume and velocity of new vulnerabilities, organizations need actionable insight into where their greatest exposures lie;
otherwise, remediation is no more than a guessing game. This means organizations need to focus on vulnerabilities that are being
actively exploited by threat actors rather than those that could only theoretically be used.”
To address this deluge of vulnerabilities, Tenable today announced Predictive Prioritization, a first-of-its-kind innovation which will provide organizations with
an unprecedented capability to prioritize those vulnerabilities which pose the greatest actual risk to the business. With
Predictive Prioritization, Tenable is combining a variety of data sources and threat intelligence with advanced data science
algorithms to determine the probability of a vulnerability being leveraged by threat actors. Predictive Prioritization will
be generally available for both Tenable.io® and Tenable.sc™, (formerly SecurityCenter) in 2019. Read the full press
release here.
For more information, read the full research report, or join the Tenable Research team for a webinar on Nov. 8 at 1 PM ET to review the findings.
About Tenable
Tenable®, Inc. is the Cyber Exposure company. Over 24,000 organizations around the globe rely on Tenable to understand
and reduce cyber risk. As the creator of Nessus®, Tenable extended its expertise in vulnerabilities to deliver the
world’s first platform to see and secure any digital asset on any computing platform. Tenable customers include more than 50
percent of the Fortune 500, more than 25 percent of the Global 2000 and large government agencies. Learn more at tenable.com.
Contact Information:
Cayla Baker
Tenable
tenablepr@tenable.com
443-545-2102, x 1544