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Evaluating Vulnerability Assessment Solutions: Buyer's Guide

How to Define Your Needs and Choose the Right Vendor

Published November 2018
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Vulnerability management (VM) is the process of identifying, evaluating, treating, and reporting security vulnerabilities in business processes, web applications, and systems (as well as the software that runs on them). This process needs to be performed continuously in order to keep up with new systems being added to networks, changes made to systems and applications, and newly discovered vulnerabilities over time.

Exploiting weaknesses in browsers, operating systems, and other third-party software to infect systems is a common first step for security attacks and breaches. Finding and fixing these vulnerabilities before attackers can take advantage of them is a proactive defensive measure essential to any security program