Global Security Database (GSD)

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 mailing list at https://csaurl.org/list-gsd. 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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