As corporate and public sector companies continue to become more digital, there are an increasing number of security risks. It is difficult for any security team to promptly fix every one of those vulnerabilities without a major increase in resources. Chief information security officers (CISOs) must therefore order vulnerabilities according to priority. Up until now, it has been difficult to achieve that prioritization. Since there is no connection between vulnerability management and threat management, security teams have not had a clear, comprehensive means to understand how attackers can leverage existing vulnerabilities to promote their strategic aims.
Although each security flaw is significant, they are not all of equal significance. In a world with flaws, the best course of action for CISOs is to concentrate on protecting the company’s high-value assets against known threats that are most likely to inflict the greatest harm.
What is Vulnerability Management?
Vulnerability management is the “cycled process of discovering, categorizing, prioritizing, resolving, and mitigating” software vulnerabilities. It is important to note that vulnerability management and…
