NEW SOFTWARE VULNERABILITIES ARE RELEASED ALMOST DAILY
Exploiting vulnerabilities is one of the most common methods used by attackers to compromise the security of organization’s information management systems. Therefore, a successful vulnerability management program is necessary to continually identify, assess and remediate vulnerabilities in your IT environment. Many compliance regulations (PCI-DSS, GDPR, KING, PoPI, HIPAA etc.) and cybersecurity frameworks (NIST, CSF etc.) list having a vulnerability management program is a crucial step to protect an organization’s intellectual property.
However, putting in a vulnerability management program is easier said than done as there are various challenges associated with Vulnerability Management as discussed below:
1. Incomplete visibility – Many organizations are using cloud services that may contain sensitive data to quickly expand their network. Because of the rapid expansion, most organizations have no visibility of all security vulnerabilities, leading to attackers being able to breach the organization’s network. 2. Standard prioritization – An individual vulnerability poses a different risk from one organization to the next. Since most organizations don’t have complete visibility of their network 3. Ineffective remediation – Because of incomplete visibility and incorrect prioritization, the remediation process becomes a pointless exercise that fails to add any value in improving the security posture of the organization’s network. Further, many organizations rely on their patch management systems to give them a report on whether a vulnerability was mitigated when most systems don’t perform such verification. With all of these challenges it is no wonder vulnerability management is challenging. This is where DataSecure’s Vulnerability Management service will assist your organization to run a successful vulnerability management program.
security posture, they are unable to correctly prioritize vulnerabilities that are critical to the network and may waste valuable time remediating vulnerabilities that pose no risk to the business.
