Find, prioritize, and mitigate – Know your vulnerabilities
It’s more important than ever. With over 29,000 recorded vulnerabilities (CVEs) in 2023 and already over 28,000 registered this year, this trend will not fade anytime soon. IT systems, networks, applications, and hardware are being targeted more than ever, as modern computing power and techniques make it significantly easier to find weaknesses and flaws. The trend of increasing vulnerabilities year by year has continued since they were first recorded over 24 years ago.
Why is vulnerability management so important?
Because vulnerabilities are a hacker’s favourite! Exploiting known and unknown weaknesses in systems and applications has become hackers’ preferred way to access corporate and organizational data, ranking as the second most common attack vector, just behind phishing attacks.
Exploitation of vulnerabilities has exploded in recent years. Recent vulnerabilities like PaperCut and MOVEit Transfer, as well as previous critical ones like ProxyShell, Log4Shell, and ProxyLogon, had severe consequences for many companies.
The challenge is evident. With so many vulnerabilities and so much information, it’s difficult to know where to start and where to end. This is a common struggle we hear from our clients as they try to tackle this issue within their organizations.
The task seems overwhelming, and achieving complete security can feel unattainable. Fortunately, help is available to find, prioritize, and mitigate vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in your infrastructure.
Modern scanning tools allow you to identify all vulnerabilities and misconfigurations on client devices, servers, network equipment, applications, software, and the cloud. These tools can quickly map vulnerabilities and misconfigurations across your infrastructure, enabling you to answer crucial questions: “Are we vulnerable?” and “Where should we focus our efforts to minimize risk as much as possible?”
The scanning tools come with scoring systems and classifications for system functionality, criticality, and importance, allowing you to visualize and prioritize vulnerabilities that require mitigation or patching. These tools scan internal devices and systems and externally exposed devices and servers accessible from the internet. They can also assess cloud environments to ensure that vulnerabilities are detected and misconfigurations are identified.
