The irony is that the right vulnerability management solutions can actually take the weight off - your security team, your organization, and your other assets.
Understanding how means debunking some of the more popular myths around this topic and discovering the truth behind one of security's most underrated tools.
Now it's time to put those vulnerability management myths to the test and see how they hold up.
The right VM solution will be easy to stand up and easy to use.
A vendor can help streamline remediation by providing ongoing guidance in finding, mitigating, and remediating vulnerabilities so as your IT infrastructure evolves, you can respond at scale.
Many people opt out of critical vulnerability management assessments because they don't know where to start.
Old assessments just churned out a list of vulnerabilities, leaving practitioners with no way of knowing which were the most pressing.
Now, there are risk-based vulnerability management solutions available that use threat intelligence and information on your individual infrastructure to prioritize which vulnerabilities are the highest risk to your organization.
Penetration testing services can validate the exploitability of some of these weaknesses and also validate remediation efforts.
Myth #4: If You Have Pen Testing, You Don't Need VM. Actually, they work better together; vulnerability management provides visibility, while pen testing provides vital context.
VM can tell you how many vulns you have and where they reside, while pen testing identifies which of those CVEs presents the greatest potential for compromise.
VM can tell you where to patch, and pen testing verifies if that patch was applied properly and is effective.
If you think you know vulnerability management, think again.
There are several desirable advantages to having a well-established vulnerability management solution.
A compliance audit is never the time to be on the receiving end of an unexpected vulnerability.
The right vulnerability management solution can prepare you for specific compliance frameworks like PCI DSS and make the actual audit just a matter of course.
Know what they're testing for and test for it yourself with a proactive VM solution.
This small investment in time will pay big dividends when your team knows which vulnerabilities to patch first, which ones have the highest impact, and which ones to leave behind.
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This Cyber News was published on securityboulevard.com. Publication date: Mon, 11 Dec 2023 17:43:05 +0000