In an ideal world, security teams would remediate all vulnerabilities as soon as they are discovered, eliminating both small and large risks. However, zero inboxing in the world of vulnerability management is a mere pipe dream. 

Vulnerability remediation involves the fixing or patching of cybersecurity weaknesses that are detected in applications, networks and enterprise assets. Before, vulnerability remediation was a manual procedure. Nowadays, it’s more automated with advanced threat intelligence, data science and predictive algorithms assisting security professionals to know which vulnerabilities should be remediated first.

It is essential to remember that the end result of vulnerability management is remediation. One of the vital KPIs of a vulnerability management program is how many high-risk vulnerabilities are neutralized or removed before essential assets, confidential data and systems are compromised.

Mitigation and remediation are two words that are used a lot in cybersecurity. Most times they are used interchangeably. Although there is a stark contrast between them, both play a major role in security service providers’ risk-related decisions. In this post, we will take a closer look at both strategies and how threat intelligence contributes to each.

Much to our detriment, new software vulnerabilities are discovered on a daily basis. For security professionals and companies alike, this becomes a significant concern. Companies must be able to follow a procedure to guarantee that they do not fall prey to these flaws. 

Vulnerability management is the continual process of assessing, identifying, managing, remediating, and reporting security vulnerabilities across endpoints, systems, and workloads. 

Over 5,000 vulnerabilities make their way to headlines every year. The number will continue to grow, considering that the publicly disclosed vulnerabilities encourage the hackers in their devious acts.

In today's world, data breaches and cyberattacks are very common. There are many news reports of the latest cyber incident nearly every week. You can understand why cybersecurity is an increasing concern for businesses with lots of data breaches happening all around the world.