What is Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response?

Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response (VMDR) establishes the cyber security foundation that today's hybrid, dynamic and distributed IT environments require. It's a continuous, seamlessly orchestrated workflow of automated asset discovery, vulnerability management, threat prioritization, and remediation. By adopting the VMDR lifecycle, organizations decrease their risk of compromise by effectively preventing breaches and quickly responding to threats. In this way, organizations can safely pursue and extend their digital transformation, which has become essential for boosting competitiveness. As SANS Institute's Andrew Laman reminds us, cybersecurity must never be an afterthought, even as technology evolves and helps organizations be agile and customer-centric.

Why do we need Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response?

It's simple. You can't protect what you can't see. IT environments no longer have well-defined perimeters. Their security posture has become porous as organizations adopt innovations like cloud computing, containers, mobility and DevOps. You can't protect this blurred perimeter with a mishmash of disparate tools that don't interoperate. That creates data silos, opens up gaps, creates tactical uncertainty, and slows you down. Increased complexity. As Forrester Research blog post The Impact Of Digital Transformation On The Vulnerability Management Space states, this increased complexity generates a need for better asset management and prioritization of remediation workloads. "Many organizations become overwhelmed to the point of having to figure out what actually has to get done; this is the foundation of the vulnerability risk management space."

The 4 pillars of Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response

Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response has four core components that form the basis for an integrated, risk-based breach prevention and response program. IT Asset Management Vulnerability Management Vulnerability Detection and Prioritization Vulnerability Remediation

What are the Benefits of VMDR

Reduced time to remediate (TTR) Full visibility and control Reduced risk Lower TCO and higher productivity

What are VMDR Best Practices

Don't forget about misconfigurations Centralize patch management Reach for the clouds Use a variety of sensors

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