Summary

As you have observed, vulnerability management is a large endeavor to deploy and manage efficiently. We have covered a lot of different areas, and the reality is, we could cover a whole lot more within this area. Efficiently managing ongoing vulnerabilities requires a strong and collaborative team. As hundreds of vulnerabilities continue to be identified, the team must work fast to determine what the impact on the organization is to assign a priority. Once this has been done, the team will need to work with many different areas throughout the business to ensure vulnerabilities are remediated or mitigated as quickly as possible. Make sure you understand the workload for this team, and that you staff appropriately to support the ongoing demand within this area. Constantly look for continuous improvement, specifically around automation opportunities, to allow for greater efficiency with vulnerability remediation.

In the first part of the chapter, we covered how to best manage...