Show Notes
“We Speak CVE” podcast host Shannon Sabens chats with CVE™/CWE™ Project Lead Alec Summers and CWE Top 25 task lead/CWE Root Causes Mapping Working Group lead Connor Mullaly about the importance of mapping CVE Records (vulnerabilities) to their technical root causes using Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE). Additional topics include the benefits of RCM for CVE Numbering Authorities (CNAs) and consumers of CVE data, Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) and other vulnerability metadat...
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