Empirical Security found that NVD marked 20,075 of this year's CVEs as Deferred.
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The most useful thing in a CVE record is the link to the fix, and almost no CNA labels it. The CVE format lets a CNA tag a reference as "patch". That is how a tool knows…
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Empirical Security
Security Intelligence and Decision Support, Tailored to your Enterprise.
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- Computer and Network Security
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- Chicago, US
- Company size
- 11–50 employees
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Empirical builds mathematical models for security data. We maintain the world’s most advanced global models for cybersecurity, and we build local models that respond to your enterprise’s specific context and threat landscape.
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Empirical Security reported that of the 51,219 CVEs published in 2026 that NVD has settled, 20,076 are marked as Deferred.
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Empirical Security published 12% of CVEs in 2026 with the CNA tag.
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Empirical Security found that three of the 26 CNAs tagged nearly every record in 2026.
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