New Vulcan Cyber research team focuses on cyber risk mitigation and vulnerability remediation

Software program safety startup Vulcan Cyber Ltd. at the moment introduced the launch of the Voyager18, a brand new analysis group centered solely on cyber threat mitigation and vulnerability remediation intelligence.

Extending on Vulcan Cyber’s means to orchestrate threat mitigation throughout your complete vulnerability lifecycle, Voyager18 will present vulnerability mitigation intelligence as a service to Vulcan Cyber prospects and the cyber trade. The Voyager18 group goals to curate the perfect fixes, remediation paths and mitigation methods for hundreds of vulnerabilities and customary vulnerabilities and exposures.

Together with its launch, Vulcan Cyber has additionally launched free providers for safety operations, vulnerability administration and safety analyst groups, VulnRX and MITRE Mapper. The 2 providers will embrace a lot of the Voyager18 group output and are freely accessible for public use with no registration required.

VulnRX is claimed to be the one free, curated database of vulnerability remediation intelligence. It consists of fixes and workarounds for greater than 4,000 vulnerabilities and CVEs. MITRE Mapper connects vulnerabilities to related MITRE ATT&CK suggestions and methods for speedy and efficient remediation motion.

“Conventional vulnerability identification and prioritization isn’t sufficient to defend towards fashionable threats,” Yaniv Bar-Dayan, co-founder and chief govt of Vulcan Cyber, mentioned in a press release. “Tens of hundreds of vulnerabilities, mixed with quickly shrinking remediation home windows, make it near not possible for cybersecurity groups to remain forward of the crush and cut back vulnerability threat with out assist.”

Bar-Dayan added that the Voyager18 group and the VulnRX and MITRE Mapper providers “present vulnerability remediation intelligence to the cyber group” as a part of a objective “to get rid of the hole between cybersecurity groups and their counterparts in IT, CloudOps and DevOps.”

Groups that already use risk-based vulnerability administration or vulnerability prioritization applied sciences, akin to Cisco Kenna VM, Tenable Inc. or Qualys VMDR, can leverage the free providers to reinforce and speed up vulnerability remediation by enhancing collaboration throughout info know-how and safety groups.

Vulcan Safety is a enterprise capital-backed startup that has raised $35 million to this point, together with rounds of $25 million in March 2021 and $10 million in June 2019. Buyers embrace Ten Eleven Ventures LLC, YL Ventures LLC, Daybreak Capital LLP and Wipro Ventures Ltd.

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