To effectively manage cyber-risk, organizations need to gain visibility into existing application and infrastructure vulnerabilities while also learning how to manage them proactively. This can feel like an insurmountable task at times, but thankfully, the cybersecurity industry does a commendable job of sharing intelligence about the common bugs and vulnerabilities to watch.
In fact, there are organizations whose sole mission is to find zero-day vulnerabilities and other instances of malicious cyber activity, such as Google’s Project Zero and the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), providing valuable resources for cyber-risk.
All this said, the reality is strikingly different. Rather than actually remediating vulnerabilities, organizations today end up spending the bulk of their time trying to make sense of conflicting and/or duplicate vulnerability data. From a risk management perspective, they are failing to establish the visibility they need. And from a financial…
