Security leaders work hard to securing potential data vulnerabilities within their organizations. Edgescan released its 2023 Vulnerability Statistics report analyzing data collected of security assessments and penetration tests performed on assets.
The report provides a model of the most common weaknesses faced by enterprises and provides insight into how quickly vulnerabilities are being fixed based on risk. Unfortunately, high rates of known types of risk are still being found (i.e., patchable) exploitable vulnerabilities, with working exploits in the wild being used by nation states and cyber-criminal groups against organizations who are slow to patch. Additional findings include: