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One advantage that cyber criminals have on their side is the accumulated remediation deficit that has built up within organizations. There are over 170,000 known vulnerabilities that are tracked by NIST in the national vulnerability database; 58% of them with either critical or high severity. Thankfully, many of them can be remediated using traditional IT cybersecurity solutions for password, patch, and certificate management. But what about those IoT systems where traditional solutions don’t apply? Roughly half of known vulnerabilities can be exploited on IoT devices. That’s where the stage is set for significant damage from cyber criminals from distributed and unmanaged IoT systems. ## [ThroughTek, Round 2:  Need for Automated Remediation](https://blog.viakoo.com/throughtek-round-2) Today’s news I had to read twice – devices using a ThroughTek chipset contain a significant... ## [ThroughTek P2P Vulnerability Puts Spotlight on IoT Remediation](https://blog.viakoo.com/throughtek-vulnerability) This past week a significant vulnerability was found in several different makes and models of IP... ## [Are You Sisyphus or Proteus?](https://blog.viakoo.com/sisyphus-proteus) This week I came across two quotes that reinforced why keeping up with firmware patches is both... ## [Colonial Pipeline Cyberattack – Will This One Spur Action?](https://blog.viakoo.com/colonial-pipeline) The ransomware attack and subsequent shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline system on the U.S. East... ## [NDAA 889: You Need Automation To Be Successful](https://blog.viakoo.com/ndaa-889-you-need-automation) If you were informed that certain brands of footwear had unacceptable amounts of radiation coming... ## [Breaking the Cyber Kill Chain](https://blog.viakoo.com/breaking-the-cyber-kill-chain) Many cyber security professionals rely on process and methodology to ensure they are as effective... ## [What’s Your IoT Security Quadrant?](https://blog.viakoo.com/whats-your-iot-security-quadrant) Knowing where you are positioned is a good starting point to take action to improve that position.... ## [Why Manually Updating IoT Firmware is >10X Harder Than IT Firmware](https://blog.viakoo.com/updating-iot-firmware-is-10x-harder) A recent quote from cyber expert Chris Roberts highlights the immediate threat from unpatched and... ## [Why Urgency Around Unmanaged and IoT Security Hit This Week](https://blog.viakoo.com/urgency-iot-security) In several corporate boardrooms (perhaps yours), this was the week where the risk and scale of... 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