FIRST Blog 2024

We’re expecting 9006 +/- 1259 vulnerabilities this quarter, as we close out the year.

The 36th annual FIRST Conference, "FIRSTCON24," was held from June 9 to 14, 2024, in Fukuoka, Japan. This marked the first time in 15 years that the conference was hosted in Japan, with the last event taking place in Kyoto in 2009. The conference saw a remarkable turnout with 997 participants from 99 countries and regions.

As usual we like to verify our previous forecast before we make the next one. Due to travel, I must do this a few days before I should (normally on the 1st of June).

Every year we make a prediction to the number of vulnerabilities we expect to see published by NVD. We define this as the number published between New Year’s Day in 2023 to New Year’s Eve 2023, which is not the same as CVE’s that begin with 2023 as an identifier.