Kwetsbaarheden razendsnel misbruikt

"The development of the digital threat in the Netherlands is worrying”" said Minister of Justice and Security Fred Grapperhaus last month about the annual Cyber Security image in the Netherlands (CSBN). One of the focal points of the document is that cybersecurity resilience must be increased. The Digital Trust Center, set up for corporate Netherlands that does not fall under the vital sector, has set up 5 basic principles to increase cybersecurity resilience for secure digital entrepreneurial Netherlands. One of the basic principles is the constant execution of updates.

This article discusses the challenges that running updates entails and why running updates is important.

Round of vulnerabilities July

By mid-July, several critical vulnerabilities have already been published that could have direct consequences for organizations. Abuse of these vulnerabilities often leads to takeover of systems and/or networks. It is striking that the possibility of exploiting a vulnerability is becoming available more and more quickly. The table below gives an overview of the number of days during which the possibility of exploiting the vulnerabilities has become available. This includes five known vulnerabilities in widely used systems or applications from the month of July. On average, it takes three days until a working Proof of Concept (PoC) of a vulnerability is published with active abuse as a result. The fastest PoC was even released within one day. Reason enough to update in time!