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Dec
15

Cisco Opens Up Vulnerability Disclosure With OpenVuln API

From: eWeek

By Sean Michael Kerner

Cisco’s Product Security Incident Response Team pushes a new approach that makes security advisories easier to consume and act upon.

IT professionals are inundated on a daily basis with security advisories, but making sense of it all and understanding the impact is a challenge—a challenge that Cisco’s Product Security Incident Response Team is aiming to help solve with the official launch Dec. 14 of the openVuln API.

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“CVRF is an XML-based language, and Cisco is a major contributor to the development of the language and it was incubated at the nonprofit Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet [ICASI],” he said. “OVAL on the other hand was created by Mitre and is part of the Security Content Automation Protocol [SCAP] that helps security administrators with configuration best practices.”

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