Total Network Visibility Blog

What do you really know about the vulnerabilities of your network equipment?

An equipment manufacturer could have released a notice about a major security problem, but the widely-released email might have made it into your SPAM filter.

Additionally, many network equipment manufacturers don’t like to broadly advertise vulnerabilities via email, as it creates an almost continuous reminder that their products have faults.

To solve this problem, the National Institute of Standards (NIST) set up the National Vulnerability Database (nvd.nist.gov) where vendors can report vulnerabilities so users can check their equipment and OS versions to determine if security vulnerabilities exist.