Update Management and Email Protection
Although there are going to be many different areas that you’ll need to address as part of your vulnerability management program, I believe it’s important we spend some time focusing on two of the more challenging and biggest areas as it relates to vulnerability management. Your update management processes, specifically as it relates to your end-user devices and traditional infrastructure, will be the largest component of your vulnerability management program. The next area we will look at is your communication systems and, more specifically, email as it continues to be abused from a vulnerability perspective.
Update Deployment
Before we go into more detail on the update process, let’s look at some data and statistics to give us a better idea of what we face when it comes to the end-user device footprint we need to keep updated. For these statistics, we will refer to an online service called StatCounter Global Stats...