Vulnerability Management

Today’s businesses are required to address security and compliance risks on their IT infrastructure on a daily basis. Most businesses rely on a collection of point products and manual processes when attempting to solve this problem.

Driven by an increasing number of regulatory mandates, increasing costs of achieving and maintaining compliance, increased IT risk (e.g., security breaches) that may even affect Standard & Poor evaluations of risk, customer and shareholder confidence, security compliance programs are fast becoming an essential component of any enterprise IT Strategy.

IT GRC requirements affect IT security at multiple levels, from the network down to endpoint client machines and other network devices. IT departments need to keep up with new regulations and modifications to existing regulations to pass audits, while reducing costs, complexity and redundant work. Vigilance in keeping up with current Operating System (OS) vulnerabilities and associated patches is critical as zero-day attacks at the OS level become more sophisticated. Maintaining homegrown and manual security compliance processes is no longer a viable option.

Vulnerability Scanning and Management technology provides a centrally managed, enterprise-scale solution that enables organizations to close IT compliance gaps, and implement continuous monitoring in order to audit, evaluate, and comply with internal, industry, and regulatory policies for IT controls and security at the OS level.

Organizations realize a quick return on investment with easy to install, intuitive, high value standard compliance policies (NIST SCAP, FDCC, PCI-DSS, SOX, GLBA, HIPAA) that are ready out-of- the-box and offer regular updates. This technology is usually a dedicated hardware appliance that easily plugs into the network for fast deployment and integrates endpoint vulnerability management, industry and federal compliance, patch management, remediation, auditing and reporting. A centralized administration console facilitates management of multiple appliances across the enterprise.

For more information on available appliances for vulnerability management, contact us at security@compliancepoint.com.