Vulnerability Management
A proactive approach to identifying, assessing, prioritizing, and mitigating vulnerabilities in your systems and networks.
Vulnerability Management
Plan, Scan, Prioritize, Act, Assess, and Enhance
Minimize the Attack Surface with a Comprehensive Vulnerability Management Program
Vulnerabilities are gaps in the security of networks, systems, applications, etc. These potential weaknesses can be exploited to gain unauthorized access, disrupt services, steal data, or perform other malicious activities.
Identifying and addressing vulnerabilities is crucial to maintaining the security of a system, and vulnerability management is an ongoing practice intended to mitigate those gaps and enhance security across your entire organization.
How can we help?
Speak with our team to get started with your vulnerability management program.
CONTACT USFRSecure’s Approach to Vulnerability Management
Simply put, this is something we expect every organization to have in place or be working toward. Most organizations may have scanning processes in place, but a comprehensive program entails much more than that.
FRSecure will help design and implement a full vulnerability management program at your organization that focuses heavily on risk-based asset management with an emphasis on process structure, enhancing exposure awareness, management of vulnerabilities, guiding remediation activities, and providing appropriate reporting.
What is Vulnerability Management?
Vulnerability management is a proactive approach to identifying, assessing, prioritizing, and mitigating vulnerabilities in a system or network before they can be exploited. It is a systematic process that helps organizations stay ahead of potential threats and reduce the risk of security breaches.
Vulnerability management and attack surface management are closely interconnected but distinct. Attack Surface Management enhances Vulnerability Management by supplying enriched asset risk context, while Vulnerability Management contributes vulnerability intelligence that helps Attack Surface Management more accurately assess and define risk.
Components of Exposure Management
Attack Surface Management
- Asset Discovery
- Digital Footprint Monitoring
- Shadow IT Detection
- Risk Attribution
Vulnerability Management
- Vulnerability Scanning
- Prioritization
- Threat Intelligence Correlation
- Patch & Remediation Tracking
Validation
- Penetration Testing
- Attack Path Analysis
- Continuous Validation
- Compliance Validation
Vulnerability Management Process
A nonstop process to guide remediation, mitigation, and risk reduction
Plan & Enhance
Determining the scope of the vulnerability management program is an important step in ensuring efforts and resources are focused effectively. We look at things like assets, network segmentation, third-party systems, and regulatory requirements to choose how to manage risks.
Scan
Scanning is likely the most recognizable and enacted component of vulnerability management across organizations. We'll work with you on asset discovery, vulnerability assessments, and put together a recommended schedule for each agent and network scan.
Report & Prioritize
This is where we work with you to determine what vulnerabilities and systems to remediate first. This is done with the risk posed to the organization in mind, and is categorized into vulnerability and asset risk ratings.
Act
Identifying vulnerabilities through scans means nothing if we don't do something about them! In the action phase, the response is prescribed. This is typically focused on remediation—fixing identified vulnerabilities. In scanning, this is often (but not limited to) patch management.
Validate & Reasess
It's not enough to patch and remediate vulnerabilities. We must routinely ensure the changes were successful and measure the performance of the program—ultimately identifying ways to continuously improve its maturity. Our team will work with you to build up this function within your organization to ensure it remains aligned with your evolving infrastructure, technology landscape, and security priorities. As long as we support your vulnerability management program, we'll create a recurring cadence from step one with your improvements as the new baseline!
The FRSecure Way
Why work with FRSecure?
Expertise
FRSecure has been in business for over 10 years, and our team has more than 300 years of combined experience working in information security and boasts 30 different kinds of certifications. When it comes to building vulnerability management programs, you have the benefit of experience in your corner.
Mission
Our mission at FRSecure is to fix the broken information security industry. The ultimate goal is to solve as many challenges as we can in your security environment. Ensuring your employees understand what different kind of attacks look like and how to avoid them is one way we can truly improve security and protect sensitive information within your organization.
Style
Our style isn’t “cookie cutter.” We recognize that each organization is different, and every security program is at a different stage of maturity. We get to know your security program intimately, identifying critical assets and conducting assessments to baseline your threat landscape. Then, we apply industry best practices to the findings to provide recommendations for building a strong vulnerability management program.
Focus
Information security is all we do. We don’t do IT, sell hardware, or provide telco services. We only do security. Because of this, our team can provide unbiased recommendations that will have a dramatic impact on the way you do security. We work hard to be a partner—collaborating with and educating your team every step of the way.