Monthly Vulnerability Insights: November 2021
Check our summary of vulnerability data from November 2021! You'll see a decrease in the number of vulnerabilities reported as compared to last month. However, there's been an increase in the number o...
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SVM User Interface FAQ
How do I access the new UI?What browsers are supported by the new UI?What are some new features of the new UI?What limitations are associated with the new UI?Can I still use the old UI?Why would I wan...
Monthly Vulnerability Insights: October 2021
Welcome to our October vulnerability insights report. This comprehensive, monthly review is based upon data from the Secunia Research Team at Flexera who produces valuable advisories leveraged by our ...
Monthly Vulnerability Insights: September 2021
The monthly report for vulnerability insights for September 2021 is here. In September, a total of 461 advisories were reported by the Secunia Research Team for 307 unique products across 72 unique ve...
Monthly Vulnerability Insights: August 2021
Welcome to our monthly vulnerability insights by Flexera. This comprehensive, monthly review is based upon data from the Secunia Research Team at Flexera who produces valuable advisories leveraged by ...
SVM Historical Reporting with PowerBI
A common question that is seen among the IT Operations and Security teams is – "How am I doing with the security vulnerabilities in my environment?" or put differently, "what is the trend of vulnerabl...
EOL Status of Microsoft Products
We are correcting an issue which could result in increased EOL statuses of older Microsoft products. For some Microsoft products the EOL status was not being properly processed because needed Microsof...
New and Improved Threat Scores in SVM and SVR
Exciting new improvements arrive soon to provide even more valuable Threat Scores so you can more accurately focus on those vulnerabilities more likely to be exploited. Specifically, we are planning t...
SVM Disaster Recovery Testing
Flexera conducts periodic failover tests of the Software Vulnerability Manager (SVM) service. We will be performing failover tests on Saturday, February 27th from 4 AM – 8 AM PST. The Software Vulnera...
SVM Support for Intune
We are happy to have introduced the long-awaited capability of supporting the publishing of patches via Intune. We were repeatedly delayed as the necessary APIs remained in beta with Microsoft longer ...
Patch Management Roundtable (Video Recording)
On January 19th, we sat down to discuss the topic of patch management. If you missed, it please find the video of the session below. In this roundtable session on patch management, our experts discus...
Monthly Vulnerability Review - Mid January 2021
Summary 422 advisories for 281 unique product from 66 unique vendors were issued from Mid December 2020 till mid-January 2021. Several Microsoft patches were issued in this month’s Patch Tuesday which...
SolarWinds ‘Supply Chain Attack’ (a.k.a. SUNBURST)
Note: this article is about a current event which is still highly evolving. We encourage customers to revisit as we update the article as things continue to change. Recently, the world received notice...
Monthly Vulnerability Review - Mid November to Mid December
Summary From Mid November till Mid December, 396 advisories were issued for 247 unique products. Two zero-day advisories were issued during this period including a hotly debated SolarWind hack. It ecl...
Monthly Vulnerability Review – October till Mid November 2020
Summary This review is a combination of advisories issued in September up to mid - November. We want to issue the review in the week of Patch Tuesday as most companies have a patch cycle right after t...
Upcoming Support for Intune in SVM
UPDATE: Our Intune publishing capability is now live. Click here for more about our plans to improve and enhance this capability! Original article... Software Vulnerability Manager, in its next rele...
ALERT: SVM Outage Planned for Friday November 6th 2020
There will be an outage of service on or about 6pm EST on Friday, November 6th, 2020 which is planned to last no more than 8 hours. This interruption of service is necessary in order for us to update ...
Monthly Vulnerability Review – September 2020
Summary In September, Secunia Research at Flexera issued 514 advisories for 389 unique versions of 289 products from 69 different vendors. Apache Struts and Microsoft Exchange Server had notable vuln...
Requesting Additions to the Vendor Patch Module
The SVM Vendor Patch Module is the largest of its kind. Our goal is to provide the most comprehensive resource covering those applications for which we can provide the best experience. While there is ...
Monthly Vulnerability Review – August 2020
Summary In August, 425 advisories were issued for 354 unique versions of 258 products from 70 different vendors. Two Zero-day vulnerabilities were reported by Microsoft, including one which was known...
Why Does the SVM Admin Console Require Internet Explorer with ActiveX?
Most of our customers use Edge, Chrome, Firefox, and other popular browsers. The requirement for the SVM console is only for certain functionality in the admin console; specifically managing WSUS and ...
Monthly Vulnerability Review – July 2020
Summary In July, Secunia research issued 674 advisories for 83 unique vendors in 361 products and 475 unique versions, while issued 97 rejection notice advisories. An increase of 34.5% advisories from...
Monthly Vulnerability Review – June 2020
Summary 501 advisories for 82 unique vendors in 354 products and 453 unique versions, while issued 111 rejected advisories. An 11% increase in the total number of advisories from the previous month. D...
The Anatomy of a Security Advisory
If you are already enjoying the valuable research being published by Flexera's Secunia Research team, you know it is made up of curated, reliable and timely details regarding vulnerable versions of so...
Monthly Vulnerability Review – May 2020
Summary Secunia Research issued 448 advisories for 80 unique vendors in 253 products and 336 unique versions, and issued 76 rejected advisories. A 28% decrease in the total number of advisories from t...
Upcoming Changes in the Tracking of the "Microsoft Edge" Product (June 2nd, 2020)
"Microsoft Edge" now features two differing release and patch cycles. These are split based on the usage of the EdgeHTML-based client versus the Chromium-based client. To account for this, we will alt...
SVM Patch Automation Configuration Demo
This past December we introduced patch automation to quickly and easily publish new patches as they become available. In this video we go through the process of setting this up as well as providing a ...
Monthly Vulnerability Review – April 2020
Summary 623 advisories for 91 unique vendors in 406 products and 512 unique versions, while issued 107 rejected advisories. An increase of 40% advisories from the previous month. Zero-day vulnerabilit...
Monthly Vulnerability Review – March 2020
Summary 447 advisories for 67 unique vendors in 286 products and 344 unique versions, while issued 133 rejected advisories. A zero-day vulnerability in Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security was rep...
SVM Patch Automation FAQ
Does this functionality have an additional cost? No, this is a new capability of the core SVM product. It is available on both our hosted cloud instance of SVM as well as in our on-premise version. No...
