Threat & Vulnerability Management
Vulnerability management involves identifying, evaluating, and prioritizing risks, mapping assets, and recommending strategic actions to mitigate threats within the broader Threat Management program.
What is Vulnerability Management?
Vulnerability management should be treated as a process of identifying, evaluating, managing, reporting, and strategically integrating the findings and learnings into the overall Threat Management program. Simply scanning and patching is a whack-a-mole proposition. At the same time, a quality vulnerability management program maps the organization’s assets, their importance, the vulnerabilities of the assets, and the criticality of the threat or vulnerability to the system. In addition, the program should strategically recommend remediation and mitigation actions to address the threats based on their overall risk to the organization.
Effective Vulnerability Management: Configuring Scans, Interpreting Results, Tracking Risk, and Prioritizing Remediation
Execute Scans
Configure and execute vulnerability scans
Interpret and Act
Strategically interpret and act upon scan results
Measure and Track
Measure and track the status of asset risk
Prioritize Remediation
Prioritize efforts based on the severity and potential impact of each vulnerability
Vulnerability Scanning vs Vulnerability Management
There is likely more confusion around Vulnerability Scanning, Vulnerability Management, Application Scanning, and even Penetration Testing regarding what to expect regarding service and reporting and how each service can help reduce risk and eliminate the thousands of software vulnerabilities discovered annually.
Understanding the Role of Vulnerability Scanning in Vulnerability Management
Vulnerability scanning is part of an overall vulnerability management program but certainly isn’t the program in and of itself. Network scanners or application scanners are used to find known vulnerabilities so that those vulnerabilities can be eliminated typically through patching. The issue that organizations have experienced is that vulnerabilities are constantly discovered, and security teams find themselves patching haphazardly without consideration of the system or assets value that needs to be patched. Thus, for many organizations, eliminating vulnerabilities in a timely manner is not managed strategically and certainly not efficiently, ultimately leaving organizations open to threats.
Benefits of Falcon Guard’s Vulnerability Management Solution
The vulnerability scanning, assessments, and management delivered by Falcon Guard experts provide clear insight into immediate risks to systems and sensitive data and serve as the foundation for overall security programs.
The consistent and periodic service delivers:
- Network and Application Scanning immediately uncovering known vulnerabilities
- Risk scores to each vulnerability and its overall threat risk
- Asset criticality scores and their exposure to potential threats
- Assessment reporting that provides strategic steps to eliminate threats by severity and risk
- Management that provides insight into how the vulnerability assessments will lead to improved overall security posture
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Learning More About Vulnerability Management
Recent devastating cyber attacks have made it clear that the sheer volume of vulnerabilities, software, systems, and information has overwhelmed security teams, so even many known vulnerabilities are often missed. Falcon Guard has customized solutions to provide your organization with a best-practice vulnerability management solution geared to your organization’s needs and cost structure.