For over 20 years, Vulnerability Management has gone completely unchanged; sure, we have new ways to scan, detect, and report, but the ineffective process has stayed the same. What this means in today’s organizations is a flood of tickets, slow remediation, missed SLAs and constant conflict between IT and Security teams. Meanwhile, common vulnerabilities remain available for attackers to continue exploiting.
Simply put, the problem is not your IT team being slow. Security teams keep taking an outmoded approach, and the solution is staring us in the face with modern tools able to easily adapt to this new way of thinking. Let’s discuss the key changes required to implement a modern Risk Based VM program.