Vulnerability and Patch Management

Conducting real-time vulnerability detection and response (VDR) is now a necessity in modern IT infrastructure. The pace at which new vulnerabilities are discovered and exploited makes it difficult for IT SecOps team to simply stay afloat from the barrage of new updates and vulnerability patches that vendors release.

It is not long sufficient to run vulnerability assessment scans across your IT environment and expect the helpdesk and sysadmin team to apply the patches. Vulnerabilities can exist across all the entire tech stack from the network, infrastructure, operating system, application, open-source libraries etc. This can leave your organization vulnerable if the patch management program across this stack is not effectively conducted. Furthermore, prioritizing the remediation of the vulnerabilities across your environment becomes a crucial process to streamline – a good example is to ensure the same critical vulnerability detected on a server in the DMZ and Core Server Farm is treated with equal importance but prioritizing the patching of the server located in the DMZ, since it’s exposed to the Internet.