Vulnerability Management Detection and Response tools, or VMDRs, chiefly manage vulnerabilities such as out-of-date software or insecure endpoints, detect any issues that may lead to a security breach or unauthorised access and respond by either notifying the end-user or automatically taking action itself, such as downloading any patches and applying them to the applications.
Managed Security Service Providers (MSSP) will go a step further and use vulnerability management tools along with a team of experts to analyse and process the data, taking actions to remediate issues as necessary.
Overview of the Entire Operation
Aside from detecting and dealing with any vulnerabilities, VMDR tools also provide businesses with an overarching view of their business infrastructure and endpoints that may otherwise have been less transparent.
For example, a business owner may be unaware of the existence of any one particular device connected to the network, so expecting them to be aware of the current vulnerability and software update status on all of these devices and applications would normally be overestimating how much free time they have to deal with all this stuff.
Using a VMDR or vulnerability management tool, business leaders can gain a good overview of their entire operation at a glance with the current status of all endpoints, devices and applications clearly notified.
Numerical Value of Risk
Another key advantage of vulnerability management tools is that, depending on the software you choose, they can provide business leaders with an overall numerical value of the overall risk of their entire network or for individual devices.
The overall risk score may be presented as a number out of ten or one hundred, giving business leaders a good impression of how secure their business really is, without having to drill into every different component and try to make sense of all the data.
Role Based Access
Certain VMDR applications will provide a suite of additional features that help further improve the security posture of an organisation.
For example, Tenable Nessus and Nessus Expert provide users with an additional role-based access privilege control function. This allows business owners to configure who has access to certain data within their own organisation.
This prevents unintended users from exploiting data that they were never meant to handle or process.
Risk Prioritisation
Another key feature of some VMDRs such as InsightVM from Rapid 7 is the ability to prioritise different risk levels and give security engineers a clear picture of which issues need addressing urgently and which may be less of a priority.
Why Do Business Leaders Need to Know About Vulnerability Management in Cyber Security?
Vulnerability management has now become one of the key components of cybersecurity for a number of reasons.
With the advanced technology available in the 2024 marketplace and beyond, this brings with it a multitude of sophisticated forms of threats that are developing rapidly and in some cases teaching themselves how to hack into your company using trial and error and machine learning and AI algorithms.
In today’s marketplace, you need an advanced solution of your own to stay on top of cybersecurity and ensure a robust defence from any malicious data breaches.
For this reason, effective vulnerability management is essential for all businesses, whether large or small. With large numbers of endpoints and applications to protect and oversee, this is now beyond the capability of a handful of staff members, manually sifting through all the data on every component of the network and trying to ascertain where the issues lie.
With vulnerability management solutions the entire network and all devices and applications are automatically inventoried and presented to you in a clear visual format.
The automated systems take care of any security weaknesses for you, flag issues, tell you how best to deal with these or go ahead and apply the fixes themselves, downloading patches and updates to various applications according to an optimised schedule.
Compared with having an individual attempting to chase these things up and monitor the entire network, it is a much more organised and streamlined approach.
Lyon Tech Vulnerability Management and Cybersecurity Solutions
As an MSSP (Managed Security Solutions Provider) at Lyon Tech, we provide a range of bespoke solutions for vulnerability management and cyber security.
Lyon Tech offers businesses the option to choose which components of vulnerability management would be most useful for their business and “bolt-on” additional services and functions as needed.
Lyon Tech provides a range of cutting-edge technologies combined with the expert personnel needed to operate them. Our services include
- Live infrastructure monitoring
- Security system auditing
- Vulnerability management/vulnerability scanning
- Patch management
- Continual network analysis
- Intrusion detection and response
- 24/7 IT Help Desk
- Penetration Testing
- Staff awareness training on cybersecurity/reacting to data breaches
Contact Lyon Tech
If you would like to know more about vulnerability management and the benefits you could receive from a fully managed cybersecurity solution, contact our friendly team today.
We would be more than happy to answer any questions you may have and can help you hand-pick which components of your bespoke cybersecurity package would be most suitable for your business needs.
With a range of vulnerability management, cybersecurity, and system monitoring technology, we can help you decide which would integrate with your existing systems and provide the maximum benefit for your business.
