Oh, *Great*. Another Security Thing.

Right, so some outfit called CTEM – which stands for something utterly meaningless I refuse to bother with – has decided they need a “core” framework for prioritizing and validating vulnerabilities. Like the rest of you weren’t already drowning in alerts. Honestly.

Basically, they’ve come up with a system that tries to figure out what bugs are *actually* important versus just noise. They’re using some fancy-pants scoring based on exploitability, impact (shocker), and whether it’s actively being used by attackers. Groundbreaking stuff, really. It involves a bunch of “validation” steps – basically checking if the bug is real before you waste time on it.

They’ve also got this whole thing about “core” vulnerabilities that *everyone* needs to focus on first. As if I don’t have enough on my plate already, now I need to follow their priorities? It’s all based on a threat model they cooked up, which is probably just someone’s opinion disguised as science.

And of course, it’s all about automation. Because apparently humans are too busy making TikTok videos to actually look at security issues. They want everything fed into their system so it can tell you what to fix. Wonderful. More tools, more complexity, more things that will inevitably break.

The article drones on about how this is supposed to improve efficiency and reduce risk. Yeah, sure. I’ll believe it when I see it. Probably just means more meetings and pointless reports.

Source: CTEM’s Core: Prioritization and Validation

And a Story For You…

I once spent three days chasing down a “critical” vulnerability that turned out to be a misconfigured firewall rule set by some intern who thought he was being clever. Three. Days. This CTEM thing probably wouldn’t have caught it either, because the exploitability score would’ve been high (easy access!), but the impact? Zero. Just wasted time and my sanity. Don’t even get me started on the documentation.

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