Prepare for Zero-Day Threats: Military and Private Sector Leaders Share Their Insights

This article summarizes a panel of cybersecurity experts who present five practical ways to prepare for zero-day vulnerabilities: assess infrastructure and supply-chain exposure, avoid overly prescriptive regulations, prepare and train incident response teams, conduct empathetic postmortems with vendors, and implement meaningful metrics. It emphasizes proactive, preventative measures (e.g., asset heat maps, patching, vendor communication) and highlights SecurityScorecard capabilities—Attack Surface Intelligence, Automatic Vendor Detection, security ratings, and Zero-Day-as-a-Service—to monitor and mitigate vendor-related zero-day risk.