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.

The number of new CVEs identified (with an increase in 2023 of 31% from the number identified by 2021 according to the Qualys Threat Research Unit) and the adoption of new tools that continuously scan cloud, code and applications for security issues are factors that keep alert backlogs expanding.

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

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