According to the Q3 2017 VulnDB QuickView report from Risk Based Security, there have been 16,006 vulnerabilities disclosed in the first three quarters of 2017, representing a 38 percent increase from last year. This is the highest number of vulnerabilities to date, which doesn’t bode well for the future of cybersecurity. To make matters worse, these numbers notably eclipse the numbers provided by the CVE and National Vulnerability Database (NVD), with more than 6,000 vulnerabilities going unreported by the government repository. Even worse still, 44.1 percent – over 2,700 – of those vulnerabilities not published by NVD/CVE have a CVSSv2 score between 7.0 and 10, which include widely deployed software used by many organizations. And that, in so many words, is very bad. Fortunately, this news isn’t all doom and gloom. Despite most founders’ inability to take cybersecurity concerns seriously, most of the invulnerabilities arising in this study do have an easy solution that could save a lot of time, money, and stress. If you didn’t know that you needed to make cybersecurity a priority at this point in the game, you’re seriously dropping the ball. Small businesses are particularly vulnerable to these attacks, as they are rarely set up with the resources to fend off sophisticated hackers. However, protecting your company from cyber attacks could be the most lucrative thing you do for your company, so get on it! Read more about helpful cybersecurity tools on TechCo
