Quoting the article: "most of the reports produced by independent research centers were focused on the threats to civil society".
The researchers found that when commercial vendors selling security-related products send information to their customers (businesses), most of those updates focused on the threat to the business. That is, it discussed the information in the context of how it affects the reader. That's thr half that the headline is based on.
Also, the researchers looked at updates coming from vendo
tbh they don't even care if it gets the patch. Most security companies doing this kind of thing are doing it for the free advertising that comes with getting a high profile exploit. That is why sometimes you see an exploit with its own logo. They often don't care if it's a real exploit, as long as it gets attention, so that's why we have the phrase POC||GTFO.
Almost all of those reports are compiled by some company which has something to sell. Typically and unsurprisingly, either a product or a consulting service to help you with... wait for it... your cybersecurity problems!
They, obviously, focus on two kinds of threats: The flashy and dangerous-sounding ones that make people worry about cybersecurity (and ask for help), and the ones where they just so happen to have a product or service they can sell you.
That's why in the reports issued by malware companies, t
Fyi, it's actually the federal government that chose the term "cybersecurity". The feds dole out a lot of money for cybersecurity and have a lot of requirements for cybersecurity, from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and others. The feds set cybersecurity requirements and pay for cybersecurity programs , so it's called cybersecurity - and it doesn't matter if you or I like that term. We have to comply with "cybersecurity" requirements from CISA (the Cybersecurity agency), even
Quoting the article:
"most of the reports produced by independent research centers were focused on the threats to civil society".
The researchers found that when commercial vendors selling security-related products send information to their customers (businesses), most of those updates focused on the threat to the business. That is, it discussed the information in the context of how it affects the reader. That's thr half that the headline is based on.
Also, the researchers looked at updates coming from vendo
Almost all of those reports are compiled by some company which has something to sell. Typically and unsurprisingly, either a product or a consulting service to help you with... wait for it... your cybersecurity problems!
They, obviously, focus on two kinds of threats: The flashy and dangerous-sounding ones that make people worry about cybersecurity (and ask for help), and the ones where they just so happen to have a product or service they can sell you.
That's why in the reports issued by malware companies, t
Fyi, it's actually the federal government that chose the term "cybersecurity". The feds dole out a lot of money for cybersecurity and have a lot of requirements for cybersecurity, from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and others. The feds set cybersecurity requirements and pay for cybersecurity programs , so it's called cybersecurity - and it doesn't matter if you or I like that term. We have to comply with "cybersecurity" requirements from CISA (the Cybersecurity agency), even