{"id":9323,"date":"2021-07-28T11:15:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T15:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=9323"},"modified":"2021-07-29T08:46:28","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T12:46:28","slug":"average-time-to-fix-high-severity-vulnerabilities-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/average-time-to-fix-high-severity-vulnerabilities-increases\/","title":{"rendered":"Average Time To Fix High Severity Vulnerabilities Increases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While the remediation rate for serious vulnerabilities is now declining, the average time taken to fix them is increasing, according to researchers from NTT Application Security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the latest AppSec Stats Flash Report, the window of opportunity for application exposure has increased in the last 6 months, with the five most common vulnerabilities remaining constant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The time to fix vulnerabilities decreased by 3 days from 205 to 202 days, bringing the average time to fix vulnerabilities down to 202 days, a significant increase from the initial 197 days at the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remediation rates have also fallen across all vulnerabilities, with critical vulnerability rates falling from 54% at the start of the year to 48% at the end of June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>High vulnerability rates fell from 50% at the beginning of the year to 38% at the end of June<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The AppSec Stats Flash Report is generated monthly and covers the time window of exposure, the vulnerability by class and time to fix.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/average-time-to-fix-high-vulnerabilities-grows-from-197-days-to-246-days-in-6-months-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in ZDNet.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research shows that remediation rates for serious vulnerabilities are now low but the average time taken to fix them is increasing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-analytics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9323"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9377,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9323\/revisions\/9377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}