With the criminal threats facing IT infrastructure in this era, the process of vulnerability assessment, policy compliance and remediation has become part of the daily administrative process. Identifying and managing risk relating to vulnerabilities requires that an organization understand the impact and cost of a successful attack on their environment.
In the past, vulnerability assessment was performed manually for auditing purposes. This process would take from one to several weeks and the reports produced were out of date by the time they were delivered. Today, high speed scanning software, allows these steps to be formalized and automated.
Automating the vulnerability management process provides a cost effective way for organizations to quantify and qualify the security risks to business applications and apply resources to remediate those risks in the most efficient manner.
This formalization of the vulnerability management process satisfies regulatory and policy compliance issues and provides best practices for corporate governance of sensitive data.
