Help Net Security interviewed Art Manion, Tharros, FIRST Liaison Member, FIRST VRDX-SIG Chair, CVE Board Member, CVE SPWG Chair, on why vulnerability databases keep failing us, and what the community needs to do about it.Highlights:- Stop treating this as a data problem, it's first an architecture problem- There is no minimum set of assertions that can confirm two systems describe the same vulnerability- CVSS scores are pulling attention away from the harder work of real risk assessment- 50%+ of vendor names in NVD's CPE data have naming inconsistencies, if you can't identify the product, nothing else matters- Before writing new specs or building new tools, the community needs shared terms and principlesThis research is part of ongoing collaborative work with Jay Jacobs, Co-Founder & Data Scientist, Empirical Security, FIRST EPSS-SIG Co-Chair, CVE Consumer WG Chair. Catch Art and Jay live at #VulnCon26: 'A Paradigm Shift in Vulnerability Identity: Why Vulnerability Databases Struggle' — April 14, 1:30–2:30 PM MST. Read the full interview: https://go.first.org/jnofT#cybersecurity #CVE #infosec #VulnerabilityManagement