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      <image:title>Research Articles | Empirical Security - A Slightly Messy KEV is still a good KEV - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 1 — Most CVEs appear and disappear on their own, When we have a group we show them all together, the rest have their own timescale below.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Research Articles | Empirical Security - A Slightly Messy KEV is still a good KEV - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 2 — Most of these changes are minor, or come with new information about the CVE, for example, addition of CWEs, more elaborate descriptions, corrected vulnerability names, consistent product and vendor names. Interesting changes in Due Date are almost always asking federal agencies to fix things faster.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Research Articles | Empirical Security - July 2026 CVE of the Month: The Apache Solr Backdoor You Installed on Purpose (CVE-2026-44825) - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Research Articles | Empirical Security - Looking for the AI vulnerability flood - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Research Articles | Empirical Security - Looking for the AI vulnerability flood - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Research Articles | Empirical Security - Looking for the AI vulnerability flood - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Research Articles | Empirical Security - The 500 Organization Reality Check - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Research Articles | Empirical Security - The 500 Organization Reality Check - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Research Articles | Empirical Security - When Headcount Doesn’t Help - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 19</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The median enterprise has 15% remediation capacity.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Research Articles | Empirical Security - Capacity is King - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Variability is high, but skews left.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://research.empiricalsecurity.com/research/remediation-halflife</loc>
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      <image:title>Research Articles | Empirical Security - Remediation Half‑Life - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>It takes around 5 months to remediate half of an average organization’s vulnerabilities.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Research Articles | Empirical Security - Remediation Half‑Life - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Survival curve variability across 500 organizations</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://research.empiricalsecurity.com/research/the-kev-paradox</loc>
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      <image:title>Research Articles | Empirical Security - The KEV Paradox - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>1% of open vulnerabilities out of a sample of 635 million are on the KEV list as of 2022.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Research Articles | Empirical Security - The KEV Paradox - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Research Articles | Empirical Security - The KEV Paradox - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Research Articles | Empirical Security - Trojan RAT: Stopping Exploit Spoofing with Machine Learning - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Github’s rise as a source of exploit POCs in 2021</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Research Articles | Empirical Security - Trojan RAT: Stopping Exploit Spoofing with Machine Learning - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Scoring of 15 WebRAT exploit spoofing attacks by Empirical’s ML model</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Research Articles | Empirical Security - Trojan RAT: Stopping Exploit Spoofing with Machine Learning - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Most CVE mentions on Github are not exploits</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Research Articles | Empirical Security - Say Goodbye to Kenna — Say Hello to Local Models at Scale - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Research Articles | Empirical Security - Say Goodbye to Kenna — Say Hello to Local Models at Scale - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Research Articles | Empirical Security - Say Goodbye to Kenna — Say Hello to Local Models at Scale - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Research Articles | Empirical Security - Say Goodbye to Kenna — Say Hello to Local Models at Scale - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://research.empiricalsecurity.com/research/critical-indicators-and-known-exploitation-heatmap</loc>
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      <image:title>Research Articles | Empirical Security - New Features: Critical Indicators &amp;amp; Known Exploitation Calendar Heatmap - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>CVE Detail Page</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Research Articles | Empirical Security - New Features: Critical Indicators &amp;amp; Known Exploitation Calendar Heatmap - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Critical Indicators Key</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Critical Indicators API Example</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>CVE Detail Page</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://research.empiricalsecurity.com/research/risk-model-slop</loc>
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      <image:title>Research Articles | Empirical Security - Risk Model Slop - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>When adding data goes awry</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://research.empiricalsecurity.com/research/local-models-vs-global-scores</loc>
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