A deck discussing the the findings from the Edgescan 2021 Vulnerability Stats Report. A full stack view of the vulnerabilities discovered in 2020 based on thousands of assessments. Host, network and application layer security metrics -Full stack
Risk Density
External Applications
32% High or Critical Risk
External Infrastructure
22% High or Critical Risk
Internal Applications
50% High or Critical Risk
Internal Infrastructure
18% High or Critical Risk
Risk Density – Organization Size
11-100 staff
0.5% Critical Risk
101 -1000 staff
1% Critical Risk
1001-10,000 staff
3% Critical Risk
10,000+ staff
2.5% Critical Risk
11-100 staff
3% High Risk
101 -1000 staff
13% High Risk
1001-10,000 staff
11% High Risk
10,000+ staff
10% High Risk
AppSec Critical Risk Top 10
SQL Injection
was first
discussed in
1998 by Jeff
Forristal, also
known by the
alias Rain
Forrest Puppy
AppSec High Risk Top 10
Cross-Site
Scripting was
first discussed in
1999 by
Microsoft.
Full stack Critical Risk Top 10
PHP is used
by 78.9% of all
websites with a
known server-side
programming
language…
Mean Time to Remediate – MTTR
Critical risk’s
IT and Information
Security generally does
not grow linearly with the
size of a business.
Larger organizations have
more to secure, more
data and systems, but
generally not relatively
more security staff!
We believe the size of an
organization does not
impact speed of security.
We believe the size of an
organization does not
impact speed of security.
Ages of discovered CVE’s
88% of CVE’s are
between 0-5 years
old.
CVE’s from 2015
are the most
common.
Malware, Ransomware
& CVE’s
CVE Relative Occurrence Malware Name/variant
CVE-2019-0708 28.90% Bluekeep
CVE-2017-0143 26.50% EternalSynergy and EternalBlue Exploit Kit
CVE-2017-5638 13.20% JexBoss
CVE-2017-5715 9.10% Meltdown / Spectre
CVE-2017-10271 6.30% Cryptominer
CVE-2018-0802 4.20% EXPLOIT.MSOFFICE.CVE-2018-0802
CVE-2019-2725 3.50% Monero
CVE-2017-11882 3.10% Loki Infostealer
CVE-2018-12130 1.40% Metldown2
CVE-2018-7600 1.00% #drupalgeddon2
CVE-2018-4878 0.70% SWF_EXPLOYT.BL
CVE-2017-0199 0.70% FINSPY
CVE-2018-8174 0.70% Monero Miner
CVE-2012-0158 0.70% Safe
The Most common CVE’s related to Malware and
Ransomware were between 1 and 3 years old