Vulnerability Management

Good security starts with visibility into what’s on your network, your assets, the vulnerabilities and the prevalent threats. Only by gaining visibility into the IT environment can your organization identify and mitigate vulnerabilities to prevent attackers from penetrating their networks and stealing information.

A vulnerability management process should be part of every organization’s effort to control information security risks. Vulnerability management helps you identify the holes that can be used during an attack and how to seal them before a breach happens. Launching regular vulnerability scans to find weaknesses that can be exploited is important, but just as important is having processes in place for efficient remediation to ensure that the most critical items are being fixed first. What you do with the data you uncover is more important than simply finding vulnerabilities.

The best technology solutions for comprehensive security assessments enable smart decisions and the ability to act effectively, make it easy to automate scans and get the right information to the right people at the right time. Beyond regular vulnerability scanning to detect and remediate issues, you want to be able to prioritize your vulnerabilities by likelihood of use by an attacker, ensuring you always fix the most dangerous ones first.

Having a vulnerability management process in place to continuously find and patch vulnerabilities greatly reduces the risks an organization is facing.