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In a blog article published earlier today, security professionals at Rootshell Security discussed risk-based vulnerability management and the impossibility of addressing every cyber security risk inside an organisation’s threat landscape–there may be hundreds. Consequently, risk-based vulnerability management is gaining importance in modern IT security strategies.
Risk-based vulnerability management enables organisations to concentrate their remediation efforts on the most dangerous issues.
The risk-based vulnerability management technique assists IT security teams in determining the possibility of a vulnerability being exploited in relation to the value of the affected asset.
Risk-based vulnerability management can assist firms in answering issues such as “Do I need to patch this system?” and “How quickly should I fix it?”
The technique ensures that money is not wasted on risks that are unlikely to have an impact, in addition to allowing firms to properly prioritise remediation.
The report also notes that Prism Platform is a vulnerability management solution of the next generation that modernises IT security…
