Israeli cybersecurity company Vulcan Cyber announced Wednesday the results of a research project conducted to better gauge the maturity of enterprise vulnerability management programs. Surprisingly, 84% of respondents felt their programs were mature, but a deeper dive revealed a major disconnect between perception and reality, according to the company.
Vulcan Cyber said it surveyed more than 100 security and IT leaders about the current state of vulnerability management at their companies and compared the results to its vulnerability remediation maturity model which was developed to help companies fix vulnerabilities and reduce business risk.
“We already know most enterprise vulnerability management programs are immature. We see it every day in the field. We mapped the survey results against our maturity model to helping IT leaders shift their focus from simply managing vulnerabilities to actual remediation,” said Yaniv Bar-Dayan, co-founder and CEO of Vulcan Cyber. “What caught us off guard was that the vast majority of respondents felt their programs were already mature. Given the amount of breaches caused by known, unpatched vulnerabilities, we discovered a surprising…
