If you feel anxious about the amount of time it takes your organization to remediate vulnerabilities or find yourself spending significant time trying to influence your peers who perform the remediations, you’re not alone. These worries are extremely common among security professionals. Fortunately, effective remediation is possible with the right collaboration strategies in place—and Rapid InsightVM can help.
What is vulnerability management, and who is responsible for it?
Vulnerability risk management programs encompass five steps. First, there’s visibility. You need to be aware of what’s happening on all your assets, from virtual machines to remote laptops and IoT devices. Next, you assess risk across all those assets in a way that provides continuous information as your environment evolves.
While everyone wishes they had the time and resources to eliminate any discovered vulnerabilities, that’s not usually realistic. The third step in vulnerability risk management is prioritizing risk. It’s not enough to consider CVSS scores—you need to take actual attacker behavior into account to determine which vulnerabilities are most likely to be exploited.
All the work of the first three steps would be for nothing if you didn’t then work to remediate the risk. This is where you get results, where patches are installed and code is updated. And, once you’ve remediated, you get to move onto the fifth step: tracking and reporting. This st ..
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