Getting Application-Centric with Vulnerability Management

Vulnerability management continues to be an important cornerstone of any cyber security program. But the unfortunate reality is that every organization has more vulnerabilities than they can realistically address. Traditionally, security teams have prioritized vulnerabilities in a very technology-centric fashion — based on IP addresses, CVSS scores and threat path analysis — this is not the language that business stakeholders speak or even understand.

By getting application-centric with vulnerability management, for the first time, security teams can understand the risk in an entire business service — complete with all its servers, databases, middleware, and the complex connectivity that’s enabled by the underlying security infrastructure. And the business can understand the impact of risk to critical applications in the data center… for faster and more effective risk remediation. Here’s a short video that explains…