Vulnerability Management
Vulnerability management is the process of identifying, analyzing, and managing cyber vulnerabilities across your organization’s IT environment. It allows security teams to close security gaps and prioritize high-severity threats while minimizing their exposure to security risks.
What is a Vulnerability Management Program Framework?
Vulnerability management is vital for addressing complex security challenges and achieving compliance. Having a structured vulnerability management program enables your security team to systematically find and address vulnerabilities as they develop.
What is Extended Detection and Response (XDR)?
Extended Detection and Response (XDR) takes a successful approach to endpoint security and expands it to cover a much wider range of network assets. It provides comprehensive protection against a wide range of cyberattacks and unauthorized activities.
XDR technology is part of a natural progression of capabilities that begins with Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR). Where EDR provides holistic protection for endpoint devices, XDR delivers broader capabilities that cover entire networks, cloud environments, and applications.
Penetration Testing
Penetration testing—also known as pentesting or ethical hacking—is a simulated cyberattack that checks your organization’s security controls and policies against real-world attack tactics. It is an important requirement for PCI-DSS, FedRAMP, and many other regulatory compliance frameworks.
Cloud Security
Cloud security consists of multiple security tools and policies that protect cloud-based infrastructure and applications. These security measures protect the organization’s data from a variety of threats, including distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, malicious insiders, and malware attacks.
Penetration Testing Compliance for PCI-DSS, SOC 2, and FedRAMP
Security compliance frameworks like PCI-DSS, SOC 2, and FedRAMP enable organizations to expand their operations and attract high-value customers. They establish secure workflows for processing cardholder data, building customer trust, and securing cloud workloads.
Vulnerability Management for Compliance: PCI-DSS and SOC 2
Navigating security compliance frameworks comes with strict requirements, but it allows organizations to process credit card transactions and take on valuable high-profile customers. Compliance frameworks provide a standard set of policies that help organizations manage risk more effectively.
Cloud Compliance
Cloud compliance is the process of meeting cloud security regulations according to a standard framework. Demonstrating cloud compliance is often a prerequisite to successfully doing business in a regulated industry, or with regulated organizations like federal government agencies.
There are many different frameworks, and each one has different requirements and objectives. Since cloud infrastructure comes with a unique security risk profile compared to on-premises hardware, many regulations stipulate specific cloud security requirements.
Patch Management
Patch management is the systematic process of applying security updates and patches to IT infrastructure in your network. These patches optimize performance and unlock new features, but closing security gaps is their greatest value. For that reason, patch management is usually considered part of vulnerability management.
Cloud Risk Management
Cloud risk management is a specific set of technologies and policies designed to provide visibility, context, and risk prioritization to cloud-hosted applications and assets. It is a framework that gives security teams the insight they need to identify and manage risks to cloud workloads.
Cloud infrastructure offers greater flexibility and scalability than on-premises deployment, but it comes with unique risks. Cloud service providers assume responsibility for the security of their infrastructure, but configuring and managing security resources is the customer’s job. The scalable nature of cloud computing usually means that the organization’s attack surface widens considerably after cloud transformation.
