Vulnerability Management / Patch Management

Vulnerability Management / Patch Management
  • Vulnerability Management (VM): Continuous process to identify, assess, prioritize, and mitigate security weaknesses in systems, applications, and networks.
  • Goal of VM: Reduce attack surface by proactively addressing vulnerabilities before exploitation.
  • Discovery: Scan servers, endpoints, applications, cloud, and IoT devices to find known vulnerabilities.
  • Assessment: Evaluate severity using CVSS or other scoring systems.
  • Prioritization: Rank vulnerabilities based on risk, exploitability, and potential impact.
  • Remediation: Apply fixes, workarounds, or compensating controls to eliminate vulnerabilities.
  • Reporting & Monitoring: Track remediation progress, generate reports, and continuously rescan assets.
  • Patch Management (PM): Subset of VM focused on deploying updates to software, OS, and applications to fix flaws or bugs.
  • PM Lifecycle: Identification, testing, deployment, verification, and documentation of patches.
  • Goal of PM: Keep systems updated and secure while minimizing downtime and compatibility issues.
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