Can a Global, Decentralized System Save CVE Data?

The article describes growing challenges in the CVE/NVD vulnerability ecosystem: due to funding shortfalls and increasing submission rates, NIST’s National Vulnerability Database developed a significant backlog and has struggled to enrich CVE records. Security analyst Jerry Gamblin advocates for decentralizing vetting and enrichment (including regional or industry “root CNAs” and mirrored regional databases) and for a global unique identifier to improve redundancy, resilience, and data completeness across vulnerability repositories.