Operationalising the KEV Catalogue: Turning known exploited vulnerabilities into immediate action
By Sriram Kakarala, Chief Product Officer, Scalefusion
Security vulnerabilities exist wherever software runs, across applications, operating systems and connected devices. Some remain theoretical and are never acted on, but others are actively exploited by attackers, and it is this second group that organisations need to treat as an immediate priority. Knowing which vulnerabilities have already been exploited gives security and IT teams a clear signal of where attention is needed.
The Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalogue, maintained by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), is a public, curated list of confirmed exploited vulnerabilities, giving organisations clarity on active exploitation. Federal agencies must remediate these vulnerabilities within fixed deadlines while commercial and private organisations are not obligated to do the same.
However, knowing what is being exploited is only the starting point. The catalogue may be public, but an organisation’s own exposure to what it contains is not. Federal deadlines...
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