What is Vulnerability Management

Minimize the Attack Surface with a Comprehensive Vulnerability Management Program

Vulnerabilities are gaps in the security of networks, systems, applications, etc. These potential weaknesses can be exploited to gain unauthorized access, disrupt services, steal data, or perform other malicious activities. Identifying and addressing vulnerabilities is crucial to maintaining the security of a system, and vulnerability management is an ongoing practice intended to mitigate those gaps and enhance security across your entire organization.

A nonstop process to guide remediation, mitigation, and risk reduction

Vulnerability Management Process

Plan & Execute

Determining the scope of the vulnerability management program is an important step in ensuring efforts and resources are focused effectively. We look at things like assets, network segmentation, third-party systems, and regulatory requirements to choose how to manage risks.

Scan

Scanning is likely the most recognizable and enacted component of vulnerability management across organizations. We’ll work with you on asset discovery, vulnerability assessments, and put together a recommended schedule for each agent and network scan.

Report & Prioritize

This is where we work with you to determine what vulnerabilities and systems to remediate first. This is done with the risk posed to the organization in mind, and is categorized into vulnerability and asset risk ratings.

Act

Identifying vulnerabilities through scans means nothing if we don’t do something about them! In the action phase, the response is prescribed. This is typically focused on remediation—fixing identified vulnerabilities. In scanning, this is often (but not limited to) patch management.

Validate

It’s simply not enough to patch and remediate our vulnerabilities. We need to ensure that the changes made were successful. Our team will work with you to rescan and validate the effectiveness of any changes.

Reassess & Enhance

It is important to regularly review and reassess the scope of your vulnerability management program to ensure it remains aligned with your organization’s evolving infrastructure, technology landscape, and security priorities. We’ll start this cycle again from step one with these in mind!

Secure Shield

Why work with Secure Shield

Expertise

Secure Shield has been in business for over 20 years, and our team has years of combined experience working in information security and boasts 30 different kinds of certifications. When it comes to building vulnerability management programs, you have the benefit of experience in your corner.

Mission

Our mission at Secure Shield is to fix the broken information security industry. The ultimate goal is to solve as many challenges as we can in your security environment. Ensuring your employees understand what different kind of attacks look like and how to avoid them is one way we can truly improve security and protect sensitive information within your organization.

Style

Our style isn’t “cookie cutter.” We recognize that each organization is different, and every security program is at a different stage of maturity. We get to know your security program intimately, identifying critical assets and conducting assessments to baseline your threat landscape. Then, we apply industry best practices to the findings to provide recommendations for building a strong vulnerability management program.

Focus

Information security is all we do. We don’t do IT, or sell hardware. We only do security. Because of this, our team can provide unbiased recommendations that will have a dramatic impact on the way you do security. We work hard to be a partner—collaborating with and educating your team every step of the way.

The landscape of vulnerabilities is evolving constantly and at a rapid pace. Hence, static one-time scans are not enough. At a minimum, organizations should be scanning quarterly. It is our stance that monthly or continual scans should be the ideal state for all organizations. Today most organizations are lagging far behind in this space. Our data concludes that less than half of organizations (48%) are scanning at least quarterly.

Lyle Melnychuk

CEO Secure Shield

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