CISA orders federal agencies to “patch smarter” (opens in new tab)

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a Binding Operational Directive that will change how the US federal government approaches vulnerability management. The directive arrives as the patching problem has become nearly unmanageable, driven by a surge in newly published vulnerabilities and by AI tools that are accelerating both security research and exploit development on the attacker side. Towards risk-based vulnerability management BOD 26-04 introduces a fr...