Vulnerability Management for a Secure IT Environment
The transformation of today’s organizations into techno-savvy enterprises is based on their technology landscape. These organizations with their innumerable servers, desktops, storage devices , laptops and networks paves the way for storage and smooth flow of critical information and data across their network. However, with loopholes in wireless network, deficiencies in infrastructure and cyber threats, customized applications and data become exposed and are vulnerable to cyber attacks both from external and internal sources.
Organizations, concerned about IT and security compliance opt for managing their vulnerability status using vulnerability management systems.
Vulnerability Management can be defined as a measurable and continuous process that enables organizations to understand the risk of the vulnerabilities existent in its IT environment and helps protect the vital data, customer information, network assets and intellectual property. Digital data needs to be managed efficiently as it resides in assets of the organization and is the core of Governance, Risk, and Compliance Management process for any enterprise.
Globalization has further led to increased demands on IT sector; there needs to be a process that aims towards sustainability, consistency and transparency throughout the management process of the organization. However, the dependency of these global organizations on the IT world to collaborate, communicate and share information through web applications, blogs, and social-networking sites has paved the way for them to be vulnerable to a variety of attacks, security breaches and data leaks. An accurate Vulnerability assessment will provide organizations with a baseline of action towards acquiring a right balance between technology and business intelligence.
The vast security threats lurking over these technologically enabled organizations call for an effective vulnerability management solution which needs to be compliant with government regulations and have pci compliance/iso compliance as well.
Gartner suggests an effective vulnerability management program which includes:
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Implementation of information security compliance policies, identifying device configurations, user identity and resource access.
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Understanding security and vulnerability status based on the organization’s environmental baseline.
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Prioritizing vulnerabilities based on risk impacts and efforts
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Using network security tools to protect and shield organization’s critical data
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Mitigating external threats and internal security postures with effective strategies and activities followed by continuous maintenance and monitoring of the IT infrastructure and environment.
The leading service providers of vulnerability management solutions make use of governance, risk, and compliance controls, documents, workflow, and repositories to assess the vulnerability status and design solutions to combat vulnerabilities as well as threat management.
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