This paper describes The Laws of Vulnerabilities, which are six axioms about the behavior of vulnerabilities gleaned from a continuous long-term research project launched by Qualys in 2002. We analyzed a global data pool of more than 40 million IP scans with QualysGuard, which is Qualys’ on demand vulnerability management and policy compliance service.

A few years ago, security professionals lived in constant reaction to sudden vulnerability exploits such as LoveLetter, SoBig, Slapper, Slammer, and Blaster. The key difference today is that security professionals can have deeper insight and more technical options to proactively stop vulnerability exploits. Understanding the “enemy” is vital to winning a conflict.

In this white paper, The Laws of Vulnerabilities: Six Axioms for Understanding Risk, you will learn why understanding the behavior of vulnerabilities is essential to set effective security strategy and proactively implement security solutions.

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