Think of an endeavor in your life where your success is entirely dependent on the success of others. What’s the first example that comes to mind? It’s common in team sports – a quarterback and a wide receiver, a fullback and their goalie, an equestrian and their horse.
What if you narrow the scope to endeavors or activities at work? A little more difficult, right? A large project is an easy candidate, but those are generally distributed across many people over a long time period, which allows for mitigation and planning.
For those that make a living in cybersecurity, the example that immediately comes to mind is vulnerability management (VM). VM, which really falls under the heading of risk management, requires deft handling of executive communications, sometimes blurred to abstract away the tedious numbers and present a risk statement. At the same time, judicious management of vulnerability instances and non-compliant configurations that exceed organization thresholds – i.e., all the numbers – requires very detailed and often painstaking focus on the minutiae of a VM program. Then, layer in the need for situational awareness to answer context-specific questions like, “Are we vulnerable, and if so, do we need to act immediately?" or “Why did the security patch fail on only 37 of the 2184 target systems?" It becomes glaringly apparent that communication and alignment among all stakeholders – security team, IT operations, and business leadership – are paramount to achieve “dependent” success.
Based on customer feedback and directional input, we’re pleased to release two updates that are aimed at not only improving VM program success but also reducing the effort to get you there.
Remediation Project progress
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