Information technology system administrators have a tough time keeping up to date with the latest threats in cyber land. Those tasked with keeping corporate networks safe face an uphill struggle to stave off the never-ending flow of new exploit kits, ransomware strains and other vulnerabilities.

Now they’re getting a helping hand from the guys at Intel Security Group, previously known as McAfee Inc., which has just released a new Threat Landscape Dashboard to keep them up to date. The dashboard highlights the most relevant threats to IT security, based on the “prevalence of attacks that exploit those vulnerabilities,” the company said in a blog post last week.

Intel Corp.’s Threat Landscape Dashboard is a free online resource that keeps IT administrators up to date on what the company feels are the most significant threats they face. The resource provides information on each of the top threats in general, exploit kits, cyberattack campaigns, ransomware and vulnerabilities. It also illustrates the relationships between each threat – for example, it shows how the RIG exploit is able to take advantage of known vulnerabilities in specific kinds of software in order to spread a variety of ransomware types.

Intel said the dashboard should prove to be helpful because system administrators face an overwhelming task to stay ahead of cyberattackers, one that’s made even harder by their inability to determine the most significant threats. As well as highlighting the most potent threats of the day, Intel also gives each vulnerability and campaign a “risk score” and a “media score” based on how dangerous they are and how much attention the press is giving them.

Currently, a Microsoft Edge browser vulnerability known as CVE-2016-7200 is ranked as the leading threat, followed by the Cerber ransomware strain, the RIG exploit kit and the CVE-2016-7201 vulnerability, also in Edge.

Intel said the dashboard is the culmination of over nine months’ research. For now the service only offers a pretty basic rundown of the top threats, but the company said it plans to make the platform more comprehensive in future with the addition of reference links from blogs and white papers for each threat.

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