In this Help Net Security interview, Alec Summers, MITRE CVE/CWE Project Lead, discusses how CWE is moving from a background reference into active use in vulnerability disclosure. More CVE records now include CWE mappings from CNAs, which tends to produce more precise root-cause data. Automation tools help analysts map weaknesses faster, but can reinforce bad patterns if trained on poor examples. Summers argues that fixing weakness patterns reduces recurring work for security teams, even those … More → The post The case for fixing CWE weakness patterns instead of patching one bug at a time appeared first on Help Net Security.