Optimizing Your Vulnerability and Exposure Management Strategy Part 6 of 7: Remediation with Validation

Asset intelligence, CAASM, vulnerability management, and exposure management are means to achieve exacting and rapid remediation that will reduce risk across your critical assets. Whether remediation is manual, semi-automated, or fully automated, the intelligence that enables it must be robust, accurate, and timely. There also must be a capability to validate that remediation has occurred. For example, a patch has been applied to address a critical level CVE, an OS or application has been upgraded, an EDR has been installed, a patch management agent has been reconfigured, etc. This is exactly the real-time remediation and validation that Sevco enables.

In blog five of this series, I discussed risk prioritization and visualization. Robust risk prioritization and visualizations that allow rapid consumption of vast amounts of data intuitively lead to remediation. Further, Sevco’s approach enables remediation validation to ensure that what was reported as being fixed has been fixed and stays fixed, thus minimizing the impact of environmental drift.

Every organization approaches remediation differently depending on its policies and procedures. Regardless of these policies and procedures, effective remediation requires a high degree of intelligence surrounding the assets, from CVEs, operating systems, and applications to identities, endpoint security controls, and IT management controls. Assuming you have a highly scalable, extensible source of asset, vulnerability, and exposure intelligence in a real-time platform like Sevco that applies business context and prioritization, remediation policies and procedures can be leveraged.

Depending on the priority for a particular asset, vulnerability, or exposure, you may manually adjust the status by accepting the risk, delaying the response later, generating a ticket or alert, or remediating within the Sevco platform. Sevco also integrates with third-party systems such as CMDBs, SIEMs, ticketing systems, SOARs, etc. For certain assets or risk level prioritizations, you may also have some of these steps automated by the Sevco platform to minimize the threat window.

Finally, the Sevco platform will validate that remediation has occurred in near real-time. This is possible because Sevco has API integrations with endpoint security and IT management controls, vulnerability assessment tools, identity management solutions, directory services, and hundreds of other sources. As such, it’s trivial to visualize, report, and alert on the juxtaposition of vulnerable assets and assets that are no longer vulnerable because of remediation. You can even track response thresholds to measure the effectiveness of your remediation processes.

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