Hi, this is Chad Dougherty of the Vulnerability Analysis team. One of the important roles that our team plays is coordinating vulnerability information among a broad range of vendors. Over the years, we have gained a considerable amount of experience communicating with vendors of all shapes and sizes. Based on this experience, we can offer some guidance to vendors about communicating product security issues.

Hi, this is Art Manion, the Vulnerability Analysis team lead at the CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC). For our first blog entry, I'd like to briefly explain our efforts to reduce software vulnerabilities.