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Once again, we have a basic failure in cyber hygiene causing a massive data breach. This one affects potentially half of the U.S. population and compromises particularly sensitive personal information that can be used by criminals to wreak havoc on people’s bank accounts, credit scores and identities.

Many of us have heard this story before, and it goes something like this:

Developers are focused on one thing and one thing only - speed. They expunge anything that gets in their way or slows them down. And they can, because successful DevOps is becoming a core competitive differentiator for many organizations.

Security leaders are focused on one thing and one thing only - risk. They are vigilant with ensuring compliance with enterprise policy and abhor change. And they can, because major cyberattacks and security breaches can become company killers.

A new critical vulnerability (S2-052) in the Apache Struts framework (CVE 2017-9805) could allow an unauthenticated attacker to run arbitrary commands on a server using the Struts framework with the popular REST communication plugin.

Malware and ransomware are a big topic these days, especially with the recent releases of WannaCry and Petya variants.Typically, when I read about new malware my first thought is, “How can I stop the infection from happening in the first place?” Tenable.io™, the first Cyber Exposure platform, answers that question by identifying vulnerabilities and presenting the information in an easy-to-understand format.

With the adoption of more cloud, mobile, IoT, and SaaS solutions, organizations need an effective way to understand, manage and reduce their cyber risk. Many organizations rely on patch management systems to automate the installation of patches across the network. When configuring these systems, many employ the "set it and forget it" method and assume all of their systems are being patched. This method often results in the patch management system reporting inaccurate information.