Vulnerability Management Readiness Assessment

Take the Free Vulnerability Management Readiness Assessment

Finding vulnerabilities is only one aspect of managing them; another is responding quickly and efficiently.
To find hidden flaws in your current vulnerability management program, take our 5-minute assessment.

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  • Are you giving the appropriate vulnerabilities priority?
  • Do you have a remediation workflow that works well?
  • Do your teams and tools work together to resolve issues quickly?
  • How developed is your risk-scoring and triage procedure?
  • Are you monitoring metrics that are truly important?
  1. Answer 5 quick questions
  2. Get your Vulnerability Management Score
  3. Receive a free checklist
  4. (Optional) Book a consultation to improve your security posture
  • CISOs & IT Security Managers
  • DevSecOps & Vulnerability Analysts
  • MSSPs & Compliance Teams
  • Anyone building or scaling a security program

You need more than just a scanner because hundreds or thousands of vulnerabilities are reported every month.
A well-developed, prioritised, and trackable process is essential; otherwise, you run the risk of:

  • Missed SLAs
  • Wasted resources
  • Unpatched critical risks
  • Failing audits and assessments
  • Tooling Readiness: Are you utilising the appropriate ticketing and scanning stack?
  • Triage Process: How are vulnerabilities categorised, assigned, and escalated?
  • Risk Scoring: Are you correctly utilising CVSS? Do you take exploitability and asset criticality into account?
  • Ownership and Workflow Who is responsible for remediation? Do SLAs exist?
  • Reporting & Metrics: Do you monitor trend, time to patch, and time to detect data?

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FAQ – Vulnerability Management in Cybersecurity

  • The process of finding, assessing, ranking, and fixing security flaws in networks, systems, and applications is known as vulnerability management. Reducing the risk of breaches is an essential component of any cybersecurity strategy.
  • Every day, new vulnerabilities are found. Organisations are still vulnerable to data breaches, cyberattacks, and noncompliance with regulations if they do not have a systematic procedure in place to identify and address these issues. A strong overall security posture and decreased risk are the results of effective vulnerability management.
  • Vulnerability management is an ongoing, continuous process that involves detection, validation, prioritisation, remediation, and verification, whereas a vulnerability assessment is usually a one-time event, such as a scan or audit.

  • The key stages include:

    • Discovery: Identify assets and vulnerabilities.

    • Assessment: Evaluate the severity and risk.

    • Prioritization: Determine which vulnerabilities to fix first.

    • Remediation: Apply fixes or mitigations.

    • Verification: Confirm vulnerabilities are resolved.

    • Reporting: Document findings and progress.

  • Depending on the risk level of your company and the regulations, it is best practice to scan continuously or at least weekly or monthly. Daily scans may be necessary for critical systems.
  • Scanners are necessary but insufficient. They might overlook configuration errors, zero-day vulnerabilities, or defects in business logic. Manual testing, threat intelligence, risk scoring, and remediation tracking are all components of a strong program.
  • The effort is led by security or IT teams, but vulnerability management is a shared duty. Coordination between leadership, compliance teams, system owners, and DevOps is necessary.
  • Nessus, Qualys, Rapid7, Tenable.io, OpenVAS, and custom platforms are examples of popular tools. These are often integrated with patch management tools, SIEMs, and ticketing systems.
  • Prioritize based on:
    • CVSS score
    • Exploitability
    • Asset exposure (internal vs. external)
    • Business criticality of the affected asset
    • Threat intelligence This ensures you focus on vulnerabilities that pose the most real-world risk.
  • Indeed. Vulnerability management is required by the majority of frameworks, including ISO 27001, NIST, PCI-DSS, and HIPAA. Regulatory and audit readiness are supported by a well-managed program