Companies are still wrestling with widespread Log4j flaw, one year later

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A year after one of the most widespread security vulnerabilities in recent history was exposed, companies are still wrestling with how to patch the flaw — or with determining if they were affected at all.

, with funding from Microsoft and Google, to provide more security tools to open-source software developers, who often run their projects in their spare time and lack the resources to stay on top of security flaws.It's up to companies to put in the work to determine which systems are still running a vulnerable version of Log4j, Mark J. Cox, Apache Software Foundation vice president of security, told Axios.

Synack CEO Jay Kaplan told Axios that while some organizations continue to invest resources in sifting through their products to determine where vulnerable versions of Log4j could be, others aren't "taking it seriously." "This reinforces that certain software is critical and ubiquitous enough that it's everywhere and in places that people don't know about," said Dan Lorenc, founder and CEO of supply chain security firm Chainguard. "The unknown unknowns are the ones that are problematic here.""Unfortunately, we're still in a pretty bad place," Kaplan said. "These vulnerabilities are being taken advantage of all over the world. We have to do better.

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