TL;DR: The Tenable Research 2020 Threat Landscape Retrospective

Tenable’s Security Response Team (SRT) is tasked with looking at the threat landscape on a day-to-day basis and, while that provides us with the ability to see things in the moment, it’s only when we look back at the year that was that we can see the bigger picture. In the Tenable Research 2020 Threat Landscape Retrospective, the SRT takes a look back at the major vulnerability and cybersecurity news of 2020 to develop insight and guidance for defenders.

The Tenable Research 2020 Threat Landscape Retrospective begins with an overview of the vulnerability landscape in 2020 in which 18,358 new CVEs were assigned. The report progresses to explore the threat landscape in 2020. How were attackers leveraging the vulnerabilities disclosed in 2020, and several that were significantly older? The final section of the report offers a digest of the key vulnerabilities in 2020 including their technical details, whether and how they’ve been exploited, all categorized by vendor or product. 

The landing page giving access to the report can be found here and an accompanying blog post can be found here.