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Vulnerability Management
Vulnerability Management is the ongoing process of identifying, assessing, reporting, and remediating security weaknesses in an organization's systems and applications to reduce their attack surface. It's like regularly checking your house for broken locks or windows and fixing them to prevent burglaries.
TECHNICAL DEFINITION
Vulnerability Management is a continuous, cyclical cybersecurity process for proactively identifying, evaluating, prioritizing, remediating, and mitigating security vulnerabilities across an organization's IT infrastructure, including systems, applications, and networks, to reduce risk and enhance the overall security posture.
BACKGROUND
Security information and event management (SIEM) is a field within computer security that combines security information management (SIM) and security event management (SEM) to enable real-time analysis of security alerts generated by applications and network hardware. SIEM systems are central to security operations centers (SOCs), where they are employed to detect, investigate, and respond to security incidents. SIEM technology collects and aggregates data from various systems, allowing organizations to meet compliance requirements while safeguarding against threats. NIST's definition for a SIEM tool is an application that provides the ability to gather security data from information system components and present that data as actionable information via a single interface.
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- Vuln Management
- Vulnerability Remediation
- Security Patching
- Risk Management (partial)
- Threat Management
USAGE NOTE
This practice is crucial in cybersecurity to maintain a strong defensive posture against evolving threats, often involving specialized scanning tools and a structured remediation workflow.
DEVELOPERS
Organizations developing technology related to Vulnerability Management.
Develops and provides vulnerability management solutions, including Nessus (a widely used vulnerability scanner) and Tenable.io, which offers continuous visibility and assessment of cyber exposure across various assets.
Offers a cloud-based platform for vulnerability management, compliance, and web application security, providing continuous visibility into IT assets and their security posture.
Provides the InsightVM platform, a comprehensive vulnerability management solution that offers continuous assessment, prioritization, and remediation guidance for vulnerabilities across an organization's attack surface.
Through its Security Operations product suite, ServiceNow offers a Vulnerability Response module that automates the prioritization and remediation of vulnerabilities by integrating with existing security tools and workflows.
Develops Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management, an integral part of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, offering continuous vulnerability discovery, prioritization, and remediation recommendations across devices.
Specializes in vulnerability remediation orchestration, providing a platform that aggregates vulnerability data, prioritizes risks, and streamlines remediation workflows across security and IT teams.
The company behind Greenbone Enterprise Appliance and the commercial development of OpenVAS (Open Vulnerability Assessment System), offering comprehensive vulnerability scanning and management solutions.
Offers Ivanti Neurons for Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (RBVM), a solution designed to identify, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities based on their exploitability and impact, integrating insights from its acquisition of RiskSense.