Vulnerability Assessment
Revolutionize your vulnerability management processes, with contextual vulnerability risk quantification, that uniquely correlates intrusion likelihood with validated business impact risk.
It’s time for the Next Generation of Risk-Based Vulnerability Management.
The Widening Remediation Deficit of Vulnerability Management
Fixing every known vulnerability has always been operationally infeasible.
With over 29,000 new CVEs reported in 2023, and an estimated YoY growth of 25% for the year ahead, this remediation deficit is only set to grow. The sheer number of vulnerabilities is only the tip of the iceberg, with the growing diversity and distribution of assets, combined with outdated prioritization logic. So even teams with ample resources patching and testing can take an extended period of time, due to complex approval processes, and limited context as to which systems to patch first, and why.
With over 29,000 new CVEs reported in 2023, and an estimated YoY growth of 25% for the year ahead, this remediation deficit is only set to grow. The sheer number of vulnerabilities is only the tip of the iceberg, with the growing diversity and distribution of assets, combined with outdated prioritization logic. So even teams with ample resources patching and testing can take an extended period of time, due to complex approval processes, and limited context as to which systems to patch first, and why.
Limited
Prioritization
Singular viewpoint of asset risk, distracts from the big picture problem
One by One is Never Done
Focusing on individual CVEs, limits the effectiveness of patching
Lack of
Context
for business impact risk that warrants the justification to act
Prioritize – Validate – Mobilize
Your Vulnerability Management Efforts
Impact-based
Risk
Prioritzation
Know where to focus, with the complete picture of vulnerability risk based on the impact to business critical assets.
CVE Exploitability Validation
Take the guess work out of CVE Risk analysis, by correlating exploit kits and attack techniques to CVEs and validating their exploitability in your environment.
Collaborative Security Optimization
Ensure your teams have the justification, prioritization, and remediation guidance they need to accelerate closed-loop vulnerability patch management.
Focus Remediation and Patching Efforts on
High-Impact Vulnerabilities
Dynamically Discover and Prioritize the Riskiest CVEs
Continuous discovery and dynamic mapping of vulnerabilities across hybrid infrastructure.
Identify the most likely breach points and quantify their intrusion risk.
Accurate validation of the exploitability of high-risk remote-code executable CVEs, with integrated attack path logic for enhanced prioritization.
Identify the most likely breach points and quantify their intrusion risk.
Accurate validation of the exploitability of high-risk remote-code executable CVEs, with integrated attack path logic for enhanced prioritization.
Report True Risk of Vulnerabilities
Comprehensive dashboards and reporting of CVEs by device, software or products, with holistic risk logic.
Seamlessly Pivot security context from intrusion risk to business impact risk, based on CVE exploitability.
Validate which vulnerabilities present the greatest risk to the business, and track remediation efforts to ensure the effectiveness of defensive strategies
Seamlessly Pivot security context from intrusion risk to business impact risk, based on CVE exploitability.
Validate which vulnerabilities present the greatest risk to the business, and track remediation efforts to ensure the effectiveness of defensive strategies
Accelerate the Mobilization of Vulnerability Management
Streamline Security operations through the mobilization of risk remediation and vulnerability management.
Justification, prioritization and remediation guidance to accelerate closed-loop vulnerability management.
Disrupt multiple attack paths and future-proof the security posture of your most critical assets.
Justification, prioritization and remediation guidance to accelerate closed-loop vulnerability management.
Disrupt multiple attack paths and future-proof the security posture of your most critical assets.
Comprehensive Vulnerability Prioritization for the Hybrid World
The next generation of risk-based vulnerability management is here, with dynamic and continuous CVE mapping that allows you to seamlessly pivot security context from a traditional to a transformative RBVM construct.
Prioritize your viewpoint of vulnerabilities from exploit likelihood to business impact risk and streamline the mobilization of remediation efforts, with rich contextual guidance, to justify action and proactively accelerate security operations.
Prioritize your viewpoint of vulnerabilities from exploit likelihood to business impact risk and streamline the mobilization of remediation efforts, with rich contextual guidance, to justify action and proactively accelerate security operations.
FAQs
How are vulnerabilities and CVEs discovered?
The XM Cyber Vulnerability Risk Management module utilizes a lightweight sensor to dynamically assess the configuration state and registry settings of devices, software and products on a continuous basis, to dynamically map their vulnerabilities and CVEs via a cloud hosted dynamic dictionary.
How are Vulnerabilities Prioritized?
XM VRM has been designed to prioritize vulnerabilities in both a traditional and transformative construct. Like traditional vulnerability assessment tools, CVE’s can be ranked based on Severity, CVSS Score, Exploit Predictability Scoring Systems (EPSS), or the number of affected devices.
However, the solution also allows the operator a unique transformative prioritization logic that correlates the inbound risk of compromise to each assest, along with the onward risk along attack paths towards Critical Assets, and the number of critical assets at risk by the vulnerability, device or software product.
How is XM Cyber VRM different to RBVM tools?
Traditional Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (RBVM) focuses exclusively on patching CVEs discovered by periodic scans. This siloed view of the attack surface has three fundamental shortfalls.
1.Fails to consider other exposure risks, such as misconfigurations, and identity issues.
2.Unable to validate the true exploitability or business impact of a CVE
3.Limited context to justify remediation efforts and actions.
XM Cyber VRM, leverages the XM Attack Graph Analysis(TM) to correlate all forms of exposure risk, to validate exploitability, and quantify the risk each vulnerability presents to business critical assets. Allowing SecOps teams to seamlessly pivot their cybersecurity risk viewpoint and context.
How does it accelerate CVE remediation?
After the dynamic mapping of CVEs, the XM Cyber Platform provides detailed recommendations and remediation playbooks for all vulnerabilities across devices, software, and products. Each remediation playbook contains step-by-step guides, which can be automatically attached to Tickets in your ITSM solution to ensure the right teams have the information they need to optimize remediation efforts.
What happens when a CVE can’t be patched?
To further optimize the mobilization of remediation efforts, the XM Cyber platform provides guidance on security best practices and additional countermeasures that can be implemented when CVE patching is not possible, due to legacy systems, or other factors that limit the installation of vendor supplied fixes and patches.
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