Vulnerability is a weakness in a system that can be exploited and leveraged upon by different threat agents. In computer security, vulnerabilities can exist in information systems ranging from operating systems to databases to web servers to web applications to switches to routers to even security solutions and devices. Vulnerabilities can occur and are exploited because of lack of security focus during application and system development, reliance on protocols that are vulnerable or because of dependency on third party packages and services.
Vulnerability management solutions help automate the process of proactively identifying vulnerabilities in systems and evaluate associated risks so that proper and prioritized vulnerability remediation and risk mitigation can be carried out before a threat agent exploits these vulnerabilities. Vulnerability management solutions are not mere vulnerability assessment tools but on top they provide features like organization specific risk, risk acceptance, risk tracking, ticketing system, and user roles and permissions to name a few.
Vulnerability management solutions apart from reducing the threat exposure due to prevalent vulnerabilities also help in meeting compliance requirements for PCI DSS, FISA, HIPAA and CIS standards for vulnerability and configuration management. The central vulnerability management console supports identification of vulnerabilities on multiple systems, devices and web applications deployed in organizations and remain future proof with regular updates. Role creation can help different departments to fulfill their responsibilities related to vulnerability identification, infrastructure auditing and web application testing with ease and effectiveness via intuitive dashboard and actionable reporting.
Vulnerability management solutions also provide the ability to test the effectiveness of existing controls on servers and desktops like anti-virus, OS hardening and patch management, browser hardening, password hardening etc. The ease of validating vulnerabilities via itself or third party exploitation tools makes vulnerability management solutions unique and help improve risk mitigation efforts.
Vulnerability management solutions help automate the process of proactively identifying vulnerabilities in systems and evaluate associated risks so that proper and prioritized vulnerability remediation and risk mitigation can be carried out before a threat agent exploits these vulnerabilities. Vulnerability management solutions are not mere vulnerability assessment tools but on top they provide features like organization specific risk, risk acceptance, risk tracking, ticketing system, and user roles and permissions to name a few.
Vulnerability management solutions apart from reducing the threat exposure due to prevalent vulnerabilities also help in meeting compliance requirements for PCI DSS, FISA, HIPAA and CIS standards for vulnerability and configuration management. The central vulnerability management console supports identification of vulnerabilities on multiple systems, devices and web applications deployed in organizations and remain future proof with regular updates. Role creation can help different departments to fulfill their responsibilities related to vulnerability identification, infrastructure auditing and web application testing with ease and effectiveness via intuitive dashboard and actionable reporting.
Vulnerability management solutions also provide the ability to test the effectiveness of existing controls on servers and desktops like anti-virus, OS hardening and patch management, browser hardening, password hardening etc. The ease of validating vulnerabilities via itself or third party exploitation tools makes vulnerability management solutions unique and help improve risk mitigation efforts.
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