Modernizing Vulnerability Management to Reduce Risk
The Vulnerability Management Process is Broken
Vulnerability management teams are increasingly overwhelmed by security alert backlogs which can often number in the millions. The growth of alert backlogs is driven both by more alerts, as well as the limitations of existing vulnerability management programs in assessing and triaging the alerts.
In 2024, the cybersecurity community observed a significant surge in reported Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs). Over 40,000 CVEs were published, representing a 38% increase from the 28,818 CVEs recorded in 2023. This marks the seventh consecutive year of record-high CVE publications since 2017.
These alert backlogs have compounded existing challenges for vulnerability management teams to identify and fix risk:
- Most employ manual assessment processes that can only scale linearly by adding more analysts
- They struggle to automate prioritization based on actual risk and specific business impact, and justify which a finding is a priority to fix
- Assigning remediation responsibility is a guessing game, especially in complex organizations
- Teams can’t standardize processes without a consolidated approach across tools and centralized collaboration across remediation workflows
Download the white paper to learn more about how security teams can fix the vulnerability management process to reduce risk.
