Vulnerability Management: Five Steps To Cybersecurity Success
Take charge of your cybersecurity program foundation with these five steps: discover, assess, prioritize, remediate and measure all assets across your computing environments.
1
Discover
Identify and map every asset across any computing environment.
2
Assess
Understand the cyber exposure of all assets, including vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and other security health indicators.
3
Prioritise
Understand exposures in context to prioritise remediation based on asset criticality, threat content and vulnerability severity.
4
Remediate
Determine which exposures to fix first and apply the appropriate remediation for mitigation technique.
5
Measure
Calculate, communicate and compare cyber exposure and key maturity metrics to drive risk reduction.
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THE CYBER EXPOSURE GAP
The tools and approaches organizations are using to understand cyber risk don’t even work in the old world of client/server, on-premise data centers and a linear software development lifecycle where there is less complexity and more control over security. An asset is no longer just a laptop or server. It’s now a complex mix of digital compute platforms and assets which represent your modern attack surface, where the assets themselves and their associated vulnerabilities are constantly expanding, contracting and evolving – like a living organism.
This elastic attack surface has created a massive gap in an organization’s ability to truly understand its Cyber Exposure at any given time. We call this the Cyber Exposure gap.
