Asset Attack Vectors: Building Effective Vulnerability Management Strategies to Protect Organizations

© Morey J. Haber, Brad Hibbert 2018

Morey J. Haber and Brad HibbertAsset Attack Vectorshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3627-7_9

9. Vulnerability Authorities

Morey J. Haber¹  and Brad Hibbert²

(1)

Heathrow, Florida, USA

(2)

Carp, Ontario, Canada

 

Since the late 1990s, vendors, end users, and governments have struggled with classifying and communicating vulnerabilities in a coherent fashion. The results produced a variety of standards for communication and governing bodies to store, process, and perform public announcements outside of the vendor community. While a wide variety of organizations have been created to communicate findings, a few provide the backbone for publicly disclosed information. The most popular are defined in Table 9-1, Vulnerability ...