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Why Vulnerability Management is now a Standard Operating Procedure

Why Vulnerability Management is now a Standard Operating Procedure
Every 90 minutes a new security vulnerability is identified
An average of 7 vulnerabilities per asset across a typical IT environment
8000 known and disclosed vulnerabilities each year
It takes an average of 103 days until known security vulnerabilities are closed

Vulnerabilities and their exploitation are still the root cause of most breaches

There are many ways to breach corporate defences, but web applications are by far the most vulnerable part of your network with the majority of exploits based on vulnerabilities already known to security professionals for at least one year. In rapidly changing, complex, business IT environments an ever expanding attack surface can only be matched by constant scanning and control procedures to discover, test and manage your assets.

What is your attack surface?

An organization’s attack surface crosses all network infrastructures, software, and web applications internally and in the global Internet. It includes an understanding of all points of interaction.

Information security managers need to be able to approach vulnerability assessment from several perspectives in order to get an accurate assessment of risks, minimize security threats, and maintain compliance.

How does WithSecure's Vulnerability Manager Help?

VM is a turnkey, enterprise-grade vulnerability scanning and management platform. It combines IT asset discovery and inventory, identification and management both internal and external threats. Report on risks and conduct compliance to current and future regulations (such as PCI and GDPR compliance). It also gives you visibility into shadow IT and so maps your full attack surface enabling you to respond to critical vulnerabilities associated with cyber threats.

Unlike any other vulnerability solution on the market, VM features web crawling technology, called Internet Asset Discovery, that also covers the deep web. It allows you to easily browse through all targets to quickly identify risks and potentially vulnerable connections, and to expand the possible attack surface beyond your own network.