Creating a vulnerability management strategy
To have a healthy security program and reduce organizational risk, it’s important for organizations to effectively identify, assess, and remediate weaknesses. Vulnerability management aims to reduce organizational exposure, harden attack surface areas, and increase organizational resilience.
The optimal approach to creating an effective vulnerability management strategy is to use a vulnerability management life cycle. Just like the attack life cycle, the vulnerability management life cycle schedules all vulnerability mitigation processes in an orderly way.
This enables targets and victims of cybersecurity incidents to mitigate the damage that they have incurred or might incur. The right counteractions are scheduled to be performed at the right time to find and address vulnerabilities before attackers can abuse them.
The vulnerability management strategy is composed of six distinct phases. This section will discuss each...
