We Speak CVE

Feb 04 2025 21 ep. 28 mins 20

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A free podcast about cybersecurity, vulnerability management, and the CVE Program.

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25 Years of CVE and What’s Next

Feb 04 2025 47 mins

Host Shannon Sabens speaks with fellow CVE Board members Kent Landfield and Madison Oliver and CVE Program Lead Alec Summers about the 25th anniversary of the CVE Program. Topics include the history of the program, the program today, and what’s next.

CNA Onboarding Process Myths Versus Facts

Oct 01 2024 24 mins

Shannon Sabens of CrowdStrike chats with Dave Morse, program coordination lead for the CVE Program, about the myths and facts of the CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) partner onboarding process. Truth and facts about the following topics are discussed: duration and complexity of the onboarding process; the fact that there is no fee to participate; ease of incorporating assigning CVE Id

Expected Impact of the CNA Rules 4.0

May 21 2024 37 mins

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 the all-new “CVE® Numbering Authority (CNA) Operational Rules Version 4.0.” Topics discussed include the new fundamental concept embedded throughout the rules called the “right of refusal”; how CVE assignment is technology neutral

Swimming in Vulns (or, Fun with CVE Data Analysis)

Apr 29 2024 43 mins

Host Shannon Sabens of CrowdStrike chats with Benjamin Edwards and Sander Vinberg, both of Bitsight, about analyzing vulnerability data in the CVE List. This is a follow-on to their “CVE Is The Worst Vulnerability Framework (Except For All The Others)” talk at CVE/FIRST VulnCon 2024.Topics discussed include the types of vulnerabilities and vulnerability intelligence they review

Meet the 3 New CVE Board Members

Apr 09 2024 25 mins

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

CVE Records States and Tags

Mar 26 2024 33 mins

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

The Council of Roots

Jan 30 2024 48 mins

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;

How the New CVE Record Format Will Benefit Consumers

Sep 26 2023 25 mins

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

Becoming A CNA—Myths versus Facts

Jun 21 2023 22 mins

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

Microsoft’s Journey Adopting CVE Services & CVE JSON 5.0

Mar 07 2023 30 mins

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