Recent insights from IDC’s recent report, Worldwide Device Vulnerability Management Forecast, 2023–2027: Evolving Beyond Scanning (Feb. 2023), provide a sobering look at the future of what cybersecurity stacks may look like in a few years.
As the name suggests, this report took a deep dive into the Vulnerability Management (VM) space – but it did not stop there. Since VM is such a cornerstone of any modern enterprise cybersecurity stack, the insights, and data apply to nearly every other adjacent cybersecurity solution. From SIEM, UEBA, Patch Management, Asset Management, and – you guessed it – Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management (CAASM), VM plays a central role.
Vulnerability scanning is evolving into vulnerability management, which will integrate attack surface management and cybersecurity asset management in the future.– Michelle Abraham, research director, Security, and Trust at IDC.
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Michelle Abraham of IDC sees conventional VM solutions in a stage of forced evolution, if you will, that will incorporate cyber asset management as well.
At Qualys, we couldn’t agree more.



























