Cybersecurity Vulnerability Management: An Essential Part of Your Organization
Hikvision consistently wants to inform and educate our customers about the latest cybersecurity news and trends. Part of cybersecurity includes the vulnerability management process. Vulnerabilities are the bugs, flaws, or weaknesses in applications, operating systems, and software components that can be exploited by threat actors. Managing vulnerabilities is an integral component of any IT and cybersecurity professional’s skillset. It is also an essential part of your organization’s ongoing cybersecurity program.
In this article by Security Magazine, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) discusses key vulnerability management steps to take in a cybersecurity ecosystem. These steps from CISA include:
- Introducing greater automation into vulnerability management by expanding the Commons Security Advisory Framework (CSAF). By publishing security advisories using CSAF, vendors reduce the time required for enterprises to comprehend the organizational impact and timely remediation.
- Making it easier for organizations to understand if a vulnerability impacts a given product through the adoption of Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange (VEX). VEX allows vendors to assert whether specific vulnerabilities affect a product or not. VEX advisories can also indicate if a product is not affected by a vulnerability.
- Helping organizations prioritize vulnerability management resources more effectively through Stakeholder Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC). This includes prioritizing vulnerabilities on CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.
Earlier this year, Hikvision released a white paper on understanding vulnerabilities, which provides more in-depth information on the subject and is free to download.