Cybersecurity risks are a result of three elements: threat, vulnerability, and impact. This blog specifically addresses vulnerability management. Patching is an important aspect of this, but there is more to it than meets the eye. As always in information security we have to balance the risk and the cost.

People are increasingly relying on IoT-devices, without realizing that these gadgets can cause consumers to be extremely vulnerable to security breaches. In 2012 Mattijs van Ommeren, Principal Security Consultant at Nixu, illustrated that many vulnerabilities could be demonstrated in Network Attached Storage devices (NAS).

We cannot know for sure what goes on at Norsk Hydro and how they have proceeded in their process. But who doesn’t enjoy good old speculation.