Topic
CISA KEV
Out of 48,000 Vulnerabilities Only 1% Are Dangerous: How to Find Them Using CVSS 4.0, EPSS, KEV and FSTEC Methodology
Vulnerabilities & Exploits
Vulnaware Bridges Vulnerability Scanners and ITSM Systems to Improve Critical Flaw Prioritization
Vulnerabilities & Exploits
Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Patched for Hardcoded Credential Vulnerability CVE-2026-20316 Already Exploited in the Wild
Vulnerabilities & ExploitsOptimizing Cybersecurity Content for LLMs: How Sites Can Enter Generative AI Answers
Search engines and AI services like ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Google AI Overviews increasingly deliver synthesized answers instead of link lists. For cybersecurity publishers this changes competition because high traditional rankings no longer guarantee visibility or accurate citation. The article explains GEO, AEO and LLMO practices, shows how material moves through indexing, fragment selection and summarization stages, and stresses the need for self-contained facts that survive extraction and paraphrasing. It provides concrete writing frameworks for vulnerability reports, including required fields such as CVE identifiers, affected versions, attack conditions and real-world exploitation evidence. Technical requirements cover correct robots.txt handling for Googlebot, OAI-SearchBot, GPTBot and Bingbot plus the use of IndexNow for rapid updates. The piece also warns about poisoning risks, prompt injection and slopsquatting attacks that can feed false data into generative systems.
Rent, Don't Build: Penetration Testing, Vulnerability Management, and Bug Bounty as a Service
The fifth installment in the Vulnerability Management for Beginners series explores three outsourcing models that allow organizations to avoid building their own infrastructure for vulnerability management. Pentest as a Service, VM as a Service, and bug bounty programs each offer distinct advantages in speed, coverage, and cost while shifting operational burdens to specialized providers. The article details how automated and manual penetration testing differ in depth and scope, why white-box scanning inside the network yields more accurate results than black-box perimeter tests, and how bug bounty platforms like HackerOne and Standoff Bug Bounty have scaled dramatically in Russia and globally. It also covers practical requirements such as proving asset ownership, establishing triage processes, setting realistic SLAs, and handling sensitive data risks when using external services. Benchmarks from providers, updated EPSS metrics, CISA KEV catalogs, and the latest FSTEC methodology are presented as tools for better prioritization. The piece concludes with legal and operational caveats for Russian companies adopting these models in 2025.