Hacking Policy Council advocates for improvements to NIST vulnerability database

The National Institute of Standards and Technology needs to modernize the operations of the National Vulnerability Database to ensure organizations maintain access to a key source of risk management information, according to a paper from the Hacking Policy Council.

“The NVD suffers from several longstanding administrative and technological challenges that have recently led to a serious degradation in NVD’s operations,” the May 12 paper says.

HPC argues, “The unsustainable path of this widely used tool creates substantial risks for...