Vulnerability Intelligence: How to Integrate it With Your Program
Vulnerability Intelligence is a critical element of vulnerability management. It enables teams to gain a greater understanding of the risk posed by a vulnerability based on real-world context, so they can implement the most effective remediation possible.
Below, we discuss the importance of vulnerability intelligence and how best to source it.
What is Vulnerability Intelligence?
Vulnerability intelligence is data that can provide context about security issues within an organization’s estate.
Examples of vulnerability intelligence include exploit availability, and if exploits are being actively exploited by threat actors in the wild.
Integrating vulnerability intelligence with your threat and vulnerability management program is key to the Prioritization stage of the Vulnerability Management Cycle.
Why do you need Vulnerability Intelligence?
There may be thousands of issues within an organization’s estate, but as only a small percentage are ever exploited, many may never need fixing.
Without the right context, it’s challenging for teams to identify which issues to focus on, particularly as CVSS scores tell a limited story.
Vulnerability intelligence helps teams cut through the noise of their vulnerability data to establish which issues are truly most vulnerable. The Venn Diagram illustrates how vulnerability intelligence can filter an organization’s data to reveal the most critical issues within their estates.
This is key to helping IT security teams identify the issues that pose the most risk to their organizations, so they can prioritize their vulnerability management program and plan remediation most effectively.
Ensuring your team are equipped to carry out intelligence-led prioritization is an important vulnerability management best practice.
How to gather Vulnerability Intelligence
Integrating vulnerability intelligence with your vulnerability management process is key.
There are a number of sources of vulnerability intelligence that you can use to gain insight into recently discovered exploits.
The sources below give you access to latest exploit information, which you can cross-reference with your vulnerability data to identify issues that could be affected.
- Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA): Informed by U.S. intelligence and real-world events, CISA provides essential background information on cyber threats.
- Zero Day Initiative: The initiative reports on 0-day vulnerabilities, which are submitted by a global community of independent researchers.
- Exploit DB: A non-profit archive of public exploits. The database provides the latest exploit vulnerability intelligence, compiled from direct submissions, mailing lists, and other public sources.
Prism’s Vulnerability Intelligence
Prism Platform is our next-generation vulnerability management platform that improves processes from start to finish.
The platform provides automated, real-time threat intelligence that is personalized to your estate, empowering you to implement the most effective prioritization possible.
Remediate the issues that matter most
Prism Platform’s industry-leading Active Exploit Detection automatically identifies issues within your estate that are being actively exploited.
The platform overhauls point-in-time vulnerability intelligence, providing powerful, continuous surveillance.
source https://www.rootshellsecurity.net/vulnerability-intelligence/
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