CVSS was commissioned by the National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) and is backed by the likes of Cisco Systems, Symantec, Internet Security Systems (ISS) and eBay. Unlike proprietary rating ...

The soon-to-be-released scoring system update has promise, but challenges remain for it to deliver exactly what CISOs need to get ahead of the latest vulnerabilities. Anyone in cybersecurity who has ...

In late 2022, we compared the Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS) and the widely used Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS). Now EPSS 3.0 brings a more comprehensive, efficient, and ...

The latest version of the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS version 4.0), released last week, should enable organizations to better assess and manage the risk that a security bug might pose to ...

The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) officially launched the fourth version of the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS 4.0), in November 2023. CVSS 4.0, the industry ...

Leading IT companies including Cisco Systems, Microsoft , and Symantec are promoting a rating system that will standardize the measurement of the severity of software vulnerabilities. A plan for the ...

When videoconferencing service Zoom searched for a better way to assign a severity to vulnerabilities found during bug bounty programs, the company's security team could not find a suitable approach: ...