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To remain competitive in today’s market, businesses (both large and small) are required to enlist the help of various software solutions. And applications that are either developed in-house or sourced from IT service providers. While this approach helps improve efficiency along with improving the employee and customer experience.

At the same time, it exposes the very same organization’s network infrastructure to cyberattacks. And having a background strategy ready in advance. Like a vulnerability management program is crucial to completing the overall IT risk management plan. That can protect your business from these unpredictable threats.

What Does a Vulnerability Management Program Look Like?

A vulnerability management program (VMM) can deliver on your expectations only if it is both proactive and continuous. These two elements are a must in this program. Because bad elements are just waiting for you to take a break for a moment. So that they can do their job well and walk out unnoticed after inflicting damage of unmeasured proportions.

This program is a specialty of organizations that offer security services in network infrastructure. If you are running such an organization and need industry-grade talent to offer these quality VMM services to your clients. CureTech Services is an IT staffing solutions firm that can be of great help to you.

Returning to our main topic, daily use of a VMM ensures that your vulnerability management tools are always up-to-date. Complemented by the latest patches, and helps you in the fight against data breaches. A standard vulnerability management plan includes three stages.

Discovery

At this stage, a vulnerability scanner explores the network, discovering all relevant IT assets. And mapping out every potential source for their vulnerabilities. It scans all the hardware and software elements, namely desktops, mobile devices, firewalls, printers, databases, and servers. Afterward, every source undergoes an examination for the points from which it is potentially vulnerable. Like installed software, the operating system, user accounts, system configurations, open ports, etc. The scan consists of four stages.

● Pinging all network-accessible systems ● Identifying open ports and services on relevant systems ● Collecting detailed system information from systems that can be accessed remotely ● Comparing system information with the database of currently known vulnerabilities

Evaluation

Now that the vulnerability scan report has revealed all possible cyber security vulnerabilities. It is time to evaluate them based on the prioritization scale. Even though this scan exposed thousands of possible weak points. Some weak points pose a greater risk than others. A vulnerability assessment should be done to have a better understanding of them.

Wherein all vulnerabilities are rated or scored depending on their threat level to the company’s network infrastructure in case they’re exploited. This is not an easy job, and network security companies. With a specialization in offering security services in network infrastructure are experts at doing this job. They use the most widely used Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) to do this job both effectively and efficiently.

Response

Now, when you have prioritized these vulnerabilities, it is time to deal with them individually. During the process of developing solutions for possible threats. Bring in relevant stakeholders to hold discussions and create a solid plan of action. Based on the level and type of risk posed by each vulnerability. There are three actions that one can take at this point.

● Remediation ● Mitigation ● Acceptance

When this process is complete, it is very important to run an additional vulnerability scan. To ensure that the remediation actions put in place are effective and have eliminated the most critical threats. So, that there is no need to revisit the same situation and waste the organization's time and money.

Conclusion