What is Vulnerability management?
The continuous process of finding, prioritising, fixing and verifying security weaknesses across an organisation’s systems and software.
How it works
Scanners find vulnerabilities, but finding them is the easy part. Most organisations have far more findings than they can fix, so the real work is prioritising by exploitability and business impact, assigning owners and tracking each issue until it is verified closed.
Good programmes look beyond severity scores, using signals such as known exploitation, internet exposure and asset importance.
Key points
- Continuous, not a one-off scan
- Prioritised by real-world risk, not just severity
- Every finding has an owner and a due date
- Fixes are verified, not assumed
Common questions
Do we need our own scanner?
Not necessarily. Trace works with the scanners you already run, such as Tenable, Qualys and Rapid7.
How is this different from a pentest?
Scanning finds known weaknesses at scale; a pentest shows how they can be chained together and exploited.
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