According to a report from NTT | Application Security, the average time it takes for vulnerability management teams to remediate cybersecurity vulnerabilities has increased to 205 days. This implies that vulnerability management and patch management don’t receive the support required for effective security hygiene on a systemic level even in the face of the numerous security breaches that have become a mainstay in the global news.

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

The use of scanless assessment to recognize vulnerabilities has numerous benefits, including minimizing network interruption. 

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.

If you are a cybersecurity veteran, you would know that one of the best ways to prevent a data breach is through vulnerability scanning.

Nowadays, unpatched software represents a massive cybersecurity challenge for IT enterprises. Therefore, the vulnerability in this environment is common and patches are available to prevent any cyber threats. 

What is Patch Management?

Patch management is a process that helps develop, test and install more than one patch on current applications and software tools on a computer, making sure the systems stay updated on current patches and deciding which of the patches is the appropriate one.