The Great Vulnerability Catch-Up: Trends from 2020 and What We Learned

Starting in Q2, 2020 was “The Great Catch-up” for vulnerabilities, as the numbers of vulnerabilities disclosed began to normalize. That isn’t necessarily great news for organizations’ IT security teams and vulnerability programs, however. With the average number of vulnerabilities being published by VulnDB in 2020 reaching almost 70 per day, peaking at a high of 384 in a single day, the Vulnerability Fujiwhara, combined with the increasing volume of routine Patch Tuesday events, has made patching and remediation a Sisyphean task. With 2020 at an end, we take an analytical look into what organizations have faced during this incomparable year, and what it means as we continue through 2021.

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