For today’s CISOs, managing cyber risk is Job #1 priority, and it’s a full-time concern. Security practitioners are spending a considerable amount of time responding to cybersecurity threats and finding ways to reduce risk from threats that are unknown.
Earlier this year Qualys introduced Qualys VMDR with Qualys TruRiskTM which helps organizations quantify cyber risk so that they can accurately measure it, take steps to reduce exposure, track risk reduction trends over time, and better measure the effectiveness of their cyber security program.
Qualys TruRisk™ is a new approach to prioritize vulnerabilities, assets, and groups of assets based on the actual risk, or the “true risk” (pun intended), they pose to the organization. This allows organizations to focus on up to 85% fewer critical vulnerabilities compared to CVSS based prioritization.
In a recent analysis, Aflac was able to reduce risk by 55% by leveraging Qualys TruRisk™ to focus on the highest risk first.
To help organizations realize similar benefits we are doing a three part series on how organizations can operationalize Qualys TruRisk™ in their respective environments to effectively manage and reduce cyber risk.
Identify Crown Jewels
Assign Asset Criticality
Qualys TruRisk™ is designed to quickly identify high-value assets with critical vulnerabilities. Asset criticality plays a key role in identifying high-value assets. When integrated with ServiceNow CMDB, Qualys VMDR automatically imports business criticality for assets.
But for organizations that don’t have an accurate CMDB, asset tagging is a key capability to operationalize Qualys TruRisk™. Asset tagging helps organizations organize assets within the organization. They can apply tags manually or configure rules for the automatic classifica ..
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