Traditional Vulnerability Management approach has become increasingly ineffective as cyber-attacks continue to grow in volume and sophistication. It is no longer enough to just enumerate vulnerabilities due to unpatched systems. This e-book highlights 8 key distinguishing features that transform a traditional VM program into risk-based vulnerability management, which enables organizations to avoid breaches by continuously discovering and monitoring all points in their attack surface and take appropriate mitigation steps.
The eight must-have capabilities of a risk-based vulnerability management are:
- Automatic discovery and inventorying of all IT assets, applications, and users
- Visibility on all types of assets including BYOD, IoT, cloud, and third party
- Coverage of attack vectors beyond just scanning for vulnerabilities in unpatched software
- Continuous and real-time monitoring of all assets across all attack vectors
- Understanding of context and business risk for each asset
- Create a complete picture using AI and ML to analyze the volume of data collected from thousands of observations
- Prioritized list of security actions based on comprehensive assessment of business risk
- Prescriptive fixes to address