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Vulnerability Management

The document provides a comprehensive guide on vulnerability management, emphasizing its importance in identifying, assessing, and mitigating digital asset vulnerabilities. It highlights the rising costs of cybercrime and the urgency of addressing unpatched vulnerabilities, citing significant breaches as examples. Additionally, it outlines key steps, common vulnerabilities, tools for management, challenges faced, and best practices for organizations to enhance their security posture.

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Vulnerability Management

The document provides a comprehensive guide on vulnerability management, emphasizing its importance in identifying, assessing, and mitigating digital asset vulnerabilities. It highlights the rising costs of cybercrime and the urgency of addressing unpatched vulnerabilities, citing significant breaches as examples. Additionally, it outlines key steps, common vulnerabilities, tools for management, challenges faced, and best practices for organizations to enhance their security posture.

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Vulnerability Management

A detailed guide to understand vulnerability management and securing your digital assets.

Authored by: Khushi Malhotra


What’s Vulnerability
Management?

A process to identify, assess, and mitigate software


and hardware vulnerabilities. It’s a continous
process of :
Why Vulnerability
Management Matters?

Cybercrime costs expected to reach $10.5 trillion annually by


2025.
94% of vulnerabilities exploited within 3 days of discovery.
61% of breaches in 2023 involved unpatched vulnerabilities.

EXAMPLE -

2021 Microsoft Exchange Hack:

Over 30,000 U.S. organizations were hacked within days


due to zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange
servers, leading to unauthorized access and data theft.
Key Steps in Vulnerability Management
Key Steps in Vulnerability Management (Cont.)
The Cost of Neglect

Testing and
Refinement:
Equifax Breach (2017) Marriott Breach (2018)
Once a prototype is ready,
conduct thorough testing to
A failure to patch the ensure it meets
Inadequate quality
vulnerability
standards and customer
Apache Struts vulnerability management exposed 500
needs. Gather feedback from
led to a massive data million customer
early users andrecords,
make
breach, costing over $700 resulting
refinementsin $124 millionthe
to improve in
million in settlements, product. This iterative
fines and process
significant
ensures the final product is
fines, and legal fees. reputational damage.
effective and market-ready.
Common Vulnerabilities
Tools for Effective Vulnerability Management

Comprehensive Open-source
Cloud-based tool Prioritizes risks and
scanner for scanner offering
for real-time streamlines
identifying network affordable
vulnerability vulnerability
and application vulnerability
detection and management
vulnerabilities. detection for small
remediation. workflows.
organizations.
Challenges in Vulnerability Management
Volume Overload:

Thousands of vulnerabilities reported


weekly.

Skill Gap:

Shortage of experienced security


professionals.

Prioritization Dilemma:

Balancing business needs with security.

Zero-Day Threats:

Unpatched vulnerabilities exploited quickly.


Best Practices for Organizations
Vulnerability Trends to Watch (2024 & Beyond)

AI-Driven
API & IoT Security Zero Trust Architectures
Vulnerabilities

AI helps Securing APIs and


Zero Trust models
cybercriminals IoT devices is
continuously verify
automate attacks, crucial as
users and devices for
making connected devices
enhanced security.
vulnerabilities grow.
harder to detect.

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THANK YOU!
Proactively Identify, Assess, and Fix Vulnerabilities for
Stronger Security.

Authored by: Khushi Malhotra

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