We Speak CVE

In this episode — recorded live at “CVE/FIRST VulnCon 2024” — CVE Board member and CVE podcast host Shannon Sabens of CrowdStrike chats with the three newest CVE Board members: Madison Oliver of GitHub Security Lab, Tod Beardsley of Austin Hackers Anonymous (AHA!), and MegaZone of F5 who joins as the new CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) Liaison to the Board.Topics include how

Host Shannon Sabens speaks with Art Manion and Kent Landfield, all three of whom are CVE Board members and CVE Working Group (WG) chairs, about CVE Records. Discussion topics include the CVE Record Lifecycle, the three “states” of CVE Records (RESERVED, PUBLISHED, and REJECTED), the current “tags” in use with CVE Records (EXCLUSIVELY-HOSTED-SERVICE; UNSUPPORTED-WHEN-ASSIGNE

Learn how CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) partners—ranging from large to small organizations, proprietary and open-source products or projects, disparate business sectors, and different geographic locations—are overseen and supported within the CVE Program by “Top-Level Roots” and “Roots.” Topics include the roles and responsibilities of the two different types of Roots;

Shannon Sabens of CrowdStrike and Kent Landfield of Trellix, both of whom are CVE Board members and CVE Working Group chairs, speak about how the new CVE Record format — with its new structured data format and optional information fields — will benefit and provide enhanced value to consumers of CVE content moving forward. Specific topics discussed include how the new CVE Record

Host Shannon Sabens of CrowdStrike chats with Julia Turkevich of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) about the myths and facts of partnering with the CVE Program as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA).Truth and facts about the following myths are discussed:Myth #1: Only a specific category of software vendors can become CNAs.Myth #2: Organizations cannot le

Kris Britton of the CVE Program speaks with Lisa Olson of Microsoft about Microsoft’s journey adopting the new CVE Services and CVE JSON 5.0 into their vulnerability management infrastructure and how they used them for the first time as part of Microsoft’s February 2023 Patch Tuesday.Discussion topics include the CVE JSON 5.0 schema mind map and other schema resources on GitHub

Shannon Sabens of CrowdStrike chats with Madison Oliver of GitHub Security Lab about the recent release of OpenSSF’s “Guidance for Security Researchers to Coordinate Vulnerability Disclosures with Open Source Software Projects” document and the important step of obtaining a CVE ID in the coordinated vulnerability disclosure process for open-source vulnerabilities.OpenSSF is a

Host Shannon Sabens of CrowdStrike chats with Tod Beardsley of Rapid7, who is the chair of the CVE Program's CNA Coordination Working Group (CNACWG), about the CNACWG’s "CNA Mentoring Program." Topics discussed include how CVE is a community, how the mentoring program is as little or as much work as you’d like it to be, the many ways in which mentoring can help n

Shannon Sabens of CrowdStrike and Tod Beardsley of Rapid7, both of whom are CVE Board members and CVE Working Group chairs, chat about the CVE Program from their insider’s perspectives.Topics include the value of a federated program of CVE Numbering Authorities (CNAs) from around the world for increased assignment of CVE Records; the upside and minimal requirements to becoming a

Shannon Sabens of CrowdStrike chats with Madison Oliver of GitHub Security Lab about how and why CVEs are assigned, the value of CVEs in vulnerability management, responsible coordination of vulnerability disclosures, the importance of comprehensiveness in security advisories, and why there is no stigma in a CVE. CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) scopes, disclosure policies, turnaround