Humanizing Patch Prioritization

Link: https://blog.opengroup.org/2024/06/27/humanizing-patch-prioritization/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=humanizing-patch-prioritization

From The Open Group Blog

Written by:
Denny Wan, Reasonable Security
James Middleton, Nationwide Insurance
Melissa Melancon, Kyndryl
John Feezell, Kyndryl
John Linford, The Open Group

“Practice what you Preach”

Hindsight is a powerful thing. Cyber defenders often bear the brunt of the blame for “preventable” cyber incidents that are attributed to a failure to apply available patches in a timely manner. For example, Veracode found that 1 in 3 applications (38 percent) still use vulnerable versions of Log4j two years after the vulnerability was disclosed and patches were made available[1]. It is easy to allocate blame for the failure to patch, but it is not the full story.