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Given the increase in successful attacks against all forms of IT infrastructure it has become obvious that current efforts to track vulnerabilities using vulnerability identifiers has reached its limit. Identifiers need to be easily discovered, fast to assign,updatable, and publicly available. The number of vulnerabilities is growing faster than we are currently able to track them.

With the proliferation of open source usage in services and commercial software the requirements for vulnerability identifiers have changed. The need for increased scope of coverage, deeper reporting and information, and reduced latency are now requirements. Everyone in IT is building and consuming software in unique ways, there is no one single way in our modern infrastructure; any attempt at a one-size-fits-all is doomed to failure.

You can learn more about why this group was created in this blog from Cloud Security Alliance’s Founder and CEO, Jim Reavis.

As an industry, we need to start talking about how to solve this problem. One way you can do this is by joining our working group at https://csaurl.org/gsd-signup. We also would like to encourage you to get the conversation started by sharing any questions or ideas you have for this project in the Global Security Database (GSD) Community on Circle.

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Press Mention	Source	Date
Anchore to Contribute Grype Open Source Vulnerability Data to the Global Security Database	IT Security News	March 29, 2022
Anchore to Contribute Grype Open Source Vulnerability Data to the Global Security Database	AiThority	March 30, 2022

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Global Security Database Working Group Charter

The scope of this project is to identify and understand the problems around vulnerability discovery, reporting, publication, tracking, and classification. Using the same style of open source collaborative techniques that have worked to create the software ecosystem that we have today, the CSA is creating a community focused working group meant to replicate this success in the vulnerability identifier problem space. The project is not limited to vulnerabilities in the cloud as we are seeing the same problems and increase in attacks across all forms of IT infrastructure. The common design goal is for vulnerability identifiers to be easily discovered, fast to assign, updatable, and publicly available.

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