The Service Location Protocol (SLP), as defined in the RFCs, is vulnerable to abuse allowing attackers to use it as a powerful reflective denial-of-service amplification vector. Earlier this year, Bitsight and Curesec published a joint research regarding this flaw tracked as CVE-2023-29552, which details the issue as well as its global impact and exposure.

It’s well known by now that cyber attacks and successful breaches have exploded in recent years. Accenture’s latest report on the state of cybersecurity notes that companies experience an average of 270 attacks per year. And Gartner warns that nearly half of organizations worldwide will experience an attack on their digital supply chains.

Bitsight and Google have collaborated to study global organizational performance across cybersecurity controls in the Minimum Viable Secure Product (MVSP) framework. Amid heightened stakeholder demands, security leaders, board members, and executives are all asking how they can better inform their cybersecurity strategy through benchmarking, keep up-to-date with current cyber risks, and prioritize budgets and workforce readiness to meet the latest challenges.

Do you know what percentage of your vendors are at higher risk of ransomware attack? Can you drill-in to see exactly who? Or more importantly, why? Or how effective your vendor program has been in reducing risk to the business over the last 12 months? In the ever-connected world of partners and suppliers, vendors and even more vendors, the line between ‘their risk’ and ‘your risk’ disappeared. And what security and compliance teams need more of is not more data, but insights.