Vulnerability management and its respective mitigation are critical aspects in the security of companies, since they allow mitigating the risks to which assets are exposed. To learn about the importance and possible approaches to improve enterprise security posture (SPM), some key criteria are outlined.
- Regulatory and/or regulatory compliance:
Organizations, by their nature, must comply with security regulations and vulnerability management, in this sense it is important to comply with regulations or standards such as GDPR (EU), HIPAA, SOX or ISO 27001:2023 and its Annex A, among others.
- Recurring security assessments:
It is advisable to execute continuous security assessments and tests, such as penetration tests, adversary emulation and vulnerability scans, allowing the identification of security gaps in the organization.
- Assets protection:
Vulnerability management helps safeguard confidential data, as well as the organization's critical assets, allowing us to mitigate possible risks such as loss, theft or exfiltration of information.
- Prioritization and categorization of vulnerabilities:
As part of vulnerability management, it is necessary to categorize, classify and prioritize security breaches according to their criticality and impact on the organization, allowing security teams to focus their efforts on resolving critical and high-level findings, mainly , but without losing sight of the medium and low level.
- Implementation of security patches:
Keep technological infrastructure platforms (hardware and software) updated with the latest security patches recommended by different manufacturers, to mitigate at least known vulnerabilities.
- Prevention and identification of cyber threats:
Identifying vulnerabilities early and proactively reduces the possibility of exploitation of gaps by attackers or adversaries (pentesters).
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