What is vulnerability management?

Your vulnerability management solution should flex and scale as your organization grows and changes over time. Your vulnerability management solution should have simple and straightforward pricing. Customized reports can improve program communication by tailoring them to fit your team’s needs, business objectives and compliance requirements. These tools can help you uncover blind spots and hidden patterns to better understand organizational risks. A vulnerability management platform for enterprises should synthesize vulnerability data using machine learning and AI. It then analyzes these assets and vulnerabilities from a hackers perspective to understand how cybercriminals might use them to infiltrate the network. ASM also extends beyond IT assets to identify vulnerabilities in an organization’s physical and social engineering attack surfaces. ASM solutions include asset discovery capabilities that identify and monitor all known, unknown, third-party, subsidiary, and malicious assets connected to the network. ASM is the continuous discovery, analysis, remediation, and monitoring of the vulnerabilities and potential attack vectors that make up an organization’s attack surface. In traditional vulnerability management, reassessment may require an intentional network scan or penetration test. But they lack stakeholder-specific vulnerability data that can result in dangerous over- or under-prioritization of a vulnerability’s criticality to a specific company. Tenable’s advanced analytics tools help identify trends and continuously improve your vulnerability management strategy. These tools give you a holistic view of your attack surface and ensure you don’t overlook critical systems. A mature vulnerability management program is the cornerstone of exposure management. Your vulnerability management program should integrate patch and release management processes to facilitate timely patching for critical assets. Effective change management will ensure you address and deal with new...

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