The CISO's Roadmap to Purposeful Vulnerability Management
InformationWeek, Thursday, September 12th, 2024
Massive backlogs of unpatched vulnerabilities leave organizations open to damaging breaches. A take-charge approach is essential to getting enterprises on secure footing.
The biggest cybersecurity problem plaguing organizations isn't awareness of their vulnerabilities, it's doing something about them.
Security leaders are weighed down by enormous backlogs of unaddressed vulnerabilities. Without the proper tools and resources, these vulnerabilities go unpatched or unresolved, leaving the door open to cyberattacks. Case in point: For 57% of cyberattack victims, breaches could have been prevented by installing an available patch -- and, significantly, 34% were aware of the vulnerability but had not taken any action simply because they wanted to avoid workflow disruptions.