{"id":255794,"date":"2026-05-26T03:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T07:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/vulnerabilities-have-become-cyber-attackers-no-1-door-to-the-enterprise\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T09:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T13:25:11","slug":"vulnerabilities-have-become-cyber-attackers-no-1-door-to-the-enterprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/vulnerabilities-have-become-cyber-attackers-no-1-door-to-the-enterprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulnerabilities have become cyber attackers\u2019 No. 1 door to the enterprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4176086\/vulnerabilities-have-become-cyber-attackers-no-1-door-to-the-enterprise.html\">Vulnerabilities have become cyber attackers\u2019 No. 1 door to the enterprise<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4176086\/vulnerabilities-have-become-cyber-attackers-no-1-door-to-the-enterprise.html\">https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4176086\/vulnerabilities-have-become-cyber-attackers-no-1-door-to-the-enterprise.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-26 03:03:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.csoonline.com\">www.csoonline.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Verizon researchers found that exploited flaws were the root cause of breaches in 31% of cases, with credential abuse blamed for 13% of security failures. In a nod to patch management difficulties in the enterprise, only one in four (26%) critical vulnerabilities were fully remediated in 2025 with the median patch time rising to 43 days, up from 32 days the year prior, according to Verizon\u2019s DBIR.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"root-cause-analysis\">Root cause analysis<\/h2>\n<p>Verizon\u2019s study is based on an analysis of 31,000 security incidents \u2014 of which 22,000 were confirmed data breaches \u2014 involving victims spanning 145 countries.<\/p>\n<p>Incident response experts quizzed by CSO confirmed the rise in vulnerability exploitation as a means for breaking into enterprises is real.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAttackers follow the path of least effort at scale, and right now that path runs through unpatched perimeter and edge devices, where a working exploit needs no prior access, no phished user, and no breach data to buy,\u201d notes Daniel Bechenea, security manager at offensive security and vulnerability assessment platform Pentest-Tools.com.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4176086\/vulnerabilities-have-become-cyber-attackers-no-1-door-to-the-enterprise.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vulnerabilities have become cyber attackers\u2019 No. 1 door to the enterprise https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4176086\/vulnerabilities-have-become-cyber-attackers-no-1-door-to-the-enterprise.html Publish Date: 2026-05-26&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":255795,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4176086-0-17454900-1779778920-lan-gao-KBuWjEVavM8-unsplash.jpg?quality=50&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[30,31,27],"class_list":["post-255794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-breach","tag-exploit","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255796,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255794\/revisions\/255796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}