999 of 1,000 successfully exploited vulnerabilities have been known for more than a year.
This means that this attack surface can be reduced quickly and easily.
Vulerability management is a process for finding vulerabilities in an IT infrastructure, classifying
their severity, and additionally providing a list of actions to be taken to eliminate the vulerabilities.
The goal is to eliminate vulerabilities before they can be exploited be attackers.
VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT
SERVICE IMPORTANCE
The aim of firewalls and similar systems is to prevent attacks that are actually taking place.
They therefore often intervene after the attack has already happended. In contrast,
vulerability management looks at the IT infrastucture from an attacker’s point of view. Here,
the goal is to close vulerabilities that could be exploited by potential attackers so that an
attack does not occur in the first place. A combination of both solutions is the best choice.