Prevent Security Breaches with Vulnerability Management Solutions
Today enterprises face danger not only from external but also from internal sources. With cyber criminals always on the lookout for vulnerabilities, loopholes, and weaknesses in procedures, processes, and systems to make quick money, enterprises need to ensure that all loopholes and vulnerabilities within the enterprise are plugged. Hence, what is required is a proactive approach because proactively managing vulnerabilities will reduce the potential for misuse and involve considerably less time and effort than responding after exploitation has occurred.
Wikipedia defines vulnerability management as “the cyclical practice of identifying, classifying, remediating, and mitigating vulnerabilities”. Vulnerability management is not a one-time solution for an enterprise’s security issues. Nor it is a solution for protecting only digital information. Instead, it is an ongoing process to protect an enterprise’s valuable data, customer information, critical network assets, and intellectual property. In simple terms, vulnerability management involves protection of not only digital information and the physical hardware assets in which they reside, but also the non-digital and intangible assets. Hence, asset management is an important aspect of vulnerability management that includes the discovery, identification and classification of hardware assets such as servers, desktops, laptops, etc. and business information assets whether tangible or intangible,of any organization.
Moreover, in today’s increasingly regulated and compliance driven business environment, enterprises need effective solutions not only to counter the growing number of security threats but also to comply with the increasing number of stringent regulations. Compliance with regulatory directives such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 (GLBA), the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS),Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies (COBIT) and so on are very essential for enterprises to avoid penalties.
Hence, enterprises must invest in a good vulnerability and compliance management solution that ensures not just effective IT compliance and vulnerability management but also asset management. This helps enterprises to
- Manage the functions, data and tasks associated with assets and related vulnerabilities
- Identify potentially exploitable vulnerabilities in network infrastructure
- Detect, prioritize and address complex IT risks
- Map assets and vulnerabilities to regulations
Vulnerability management is not something to be done after a security breach has occurred but it is a way to prevent security breaches from occurring. Hence, enterprises, irrespective of big or small, must put in place an effective vulnerability management solution to keep the cyber criminals at bay.
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