29 April 2025, North Rhine-Westphalia, Kalkar: Soldiers sit in front of monitors during the exercise. Federal Minister of Defense Pistorius visits the “Locked Shields” exercise. The multinational NATO exercise takes place at the Kalkar Exhibition and Congress Center. NATO is now part of the CVE numbering authority through ENISA. (Photo by Fabian Strauch/picture alliance via Getty Images)
NATO’s cyber defense arm and a startup that uses artificial intelligence to find software flaws can now issue the ID numbers the industry uses to track those…
The new system emerges after repeated funding crises exposed the fragility of the 25-year-old CVE program that cybersecurity defenders worldwide depend on.
Following a funding scare that nearly shuttered the CVE program, outside experts and CISA are positioning to take charge of the 25-year-old system before the next funding…
While the last-minute extension averts an immediate lapse in support, rival organizations are being stood up to supplant the global vulnerability system.