Hot or not: The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) unveils updated common vulnerability scoring system

The new scoring system promises to make it easier for security managers and the IT industry to better measure the real-world risks associated with software flaws.

It wasn’t too many years ago when trying to gauge the actual risks that a software vulnerability created for your network amounted to little more than guesswork.

Security managers either had to take the software vendor’s word for the severity of the flaw, rely on the advice of their security vendors or glean information from security advisories or press reports.

It made choosing which vulnerabilities needed top priority part science, part art and part gut feeling. Not any more.

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