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FIVE STEPS TO BUILDING A
SUCCESSFUL VULNERABILITY
MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME
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hy is vulnerability management so
difficult? Vulnerability management
poses a unique challenge for
businesses. Despite proven technology solutions
and the best efforts of multiple IT teams,
unresolved vulnerabilities consistently serve as a
source of friction and frustration.
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Regardless of how many vulnerabilities are
fixed, there are always those that can’t be
easily remediated. Infighting between IT
teams and business groups is common, each
pointing fingers as to who is responsible for
the potential risk these vulnerabilities pose to
the environment.
To deal with their frustration, companies
often switch vulnerability management
tools every few years, trying to use the latest
technology to tighten control. While this
may make sense if your security needs have
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changed, new tools won’t help if it is your
processes that are broken.
To build a successful vulnerability management
programme, you need to determine what
matters to your organisation, and then create
a programme designed to best address those
specific issues.
That sounds simple, but it’s actually incredibly
difficult. No two organisations are the same, so
there is no standard playbook to follow that can
tell you what to care about. Take the example of
a European bank operating in the United States
that fails several security audits because they
did not patch operating system vulnerabilities.
They could lose their ability to hold and handle
currency in the U.S., costing them billions in
revenue. To that bank, those vulnerabilities are
mission critical.
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