How’s your vulnerability management going? Is it effective? Or perhaps you’re doubting yourself, unsure whether your organization is protected against vulnerability-based attacks.
Let’s explore how you can enhance your vulnerability management strategy. We’ll also shortlist the top 8 vulnerability management tools.
What is Vulnerability Management?
Vulnerability management is the process of scanning, identifying, prioritizing, mitigating, and managing vulnerabilities within an organization’s systems and networks.
Vulnerabilities in digital assets can stem from a development-stage coding error in a digital asset. Such was the case with the widespread Log4J vulnerability, a popular Java logging framework. A code error in the Java library allowed hackers to execute malicious code on vulnerable systems remotely.
None of us are perfect. Sometimes, vulnerabilities result from plain old human error. Cloud misconfigurations, such as a misconfigured cloud storage bucket, are common causes of data breaches. In a case like this, an administrator may unintentionally expose sensitive information to the public Internet by failing to implement proper access controls or encryption…
