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Take a free, on-line self-evaluation of your vulnerability governance maturity to receive your maturity heatmap report

Our Cyber Security Framework

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Our Cybersecurity Control Framework is a comprehensive model designed to help organizations manage and enhance their cybersecurity posture. 

 

Once established it prepares you for threats, predicts and detects breaches, and responds to and recovers from incidents via Cybersecurity Capabilities that are informed by Cyber Risk.

 

Through our evaluation, we help you to measure the maturity of your cybersecurity environment end-to-end. Starting with identifying critical business assets and vulnerabilities, followed by measuring the effectiveness of preventive controls to detect critical assets.

Overview of the Vulnerability Governance Maturity Self-Evaluation


To give you an idea about your actual cybersecurity maturity situation, we offer you an online self evaluation questionnaire covering Vulnerability Governance, which is one of the eight domains of our Cybersecurity Control Framework.

Vulnerability Governance Discovery is a comprehensive approach to safeguarding an organization's digital infrastructure by systematically identifying, managing, and mitigating security vulnerabilities associated with its assets. This process involves understanding the organization's IT landscape, recognizing potential weaknesses, and implementing measures to reduce the  risk of exploitation.

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Heat Map Report

As an outcome of the evaluation we provide you a heat map report, highlighting weaknesses within the Vulnerability Governance Domain, which will be used as basis for further in depth analysis and strategic roadmap development covering all eight domains of our Cybersecurity Control Framework, to fix the immediate challenges and to establish a secure, future proof, scalable, and flexible operating model.

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Take the Self-Evaluation Quiz 

Please answer the following 13 questions

by applying one of the below mentioned maturity levels to recieve your maturity heatmap report

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1. What methods do you use to gather vulnerability intelligence information from external sources?

Vulnerability Management should adopt a standard practice of subscribing to updates from both security vendors and independent researchers. This includes actively monitoring and researching external publications for the latest information on discovered vulnerabilities and available patches.

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Utilize automated tools to create comprehensive summaries of the patch status for each asset, including details on unpatched vulnerabilities with their criticality and CVSS scores. Additionally, employ these tools to identify any deviations from pre-established configuration baselines, encompassing accidental misconfigurations.

2. What strategies do you employ to discover unpatched vulnerabilities within your organization?
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Regularly evaluate the overall security of crucial solution environments, considering people, processes, and technology. Conduct routine security tests that align with the most pressing threats, focusing on their delivery and exploit mechanisms. Incorporate assessments of phishing emails and other social engineering techniques to comprehensively address the human element of IT security.

3. What alternative methods do you use to seek out vulnerabilities within your organization?
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While vulnerability publications provide valuable information, not all of it may be relevant to the organization. Similarly, not all applicable vulnerabilities carry the same level of criticality. Vulnerability Management should conduct an initial assessment for applicability and criticality, considering possible impact, to establish an initial prioritization for remediation.

4. What criteria do you use to determine the priority of vulnerabilities?
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Considering the criticality of the affected asset is another crucial element in vulnerability prioritization. Vulnerabilities targeting assets integral to critical business functions or housing sensitive information (crown jewels) should be elevated in the remediation priority.

5. What is your process for validating and modifying the prioritization of vulnerabilities?
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In cases where vulnerabilities persist over an extended period, it becomes crucial to ascertain both the root cause of the vulnerability and the reasons for their continued presence in the environment. This includes factors such as patches not being applied during regular windows, unavailability of patches, misconfigurations, or design errors.

6. What methods do you employ to determine the underlying cause of a vulnerability?
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Every vulnerability should be allocated to a responsible owner for remediation. The person or business function most adversely affected by a potential exploitation should take ownership of the remediation process. It's crucial that the assigned owner possesses the authority to initiate remediation and comprehends the potential consequences of not addressing the vulnerability.

7. What process do you follow to determine the responsible party for addressing and remedying a vulnerability?
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Maximizing the benefits of Vulnerability Management for the business involves more than just effective communication. The Vulnerability Management function should integrate with (existing) workflows to ensure prompt actions aligned with vulnerability priorities. An effective workflow ticket should also include guidance on appropriate (short-term) mitigation and (long-term) remediation strategies.

8. What measures do you take to assist the relevant business functions in addressing and resolving vulnerabilities?
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Determine the remediation target date based on the overall risk level. Enforce these timelines through the organization's standard or emergency patching/incident process.

9. How do you guarantee that the timelines for remediation align with the prioritization of vulnerabilities?
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Utilize current workflow tools for ongoing monitoring and management of remediation progress. Escalate as necessary.

10. What steps do you take to make sure that the recommended workarounds and long-term controls are put into effect?
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Before implementing proposed mitigations in the production environment, assess their effectiveness in a dedicated testing environment. Mitigations may encompass not only vulnerability remediation but also comprehensive monitoring measures.

11. What methods do you employ to assess the efficacy of vulnerability remediation efforts?
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All the efforts of Vulnerability Management become ineffective if the insights are not communicated to the relevant business functions with the authority to take necessary actions.

12. What procedures do you use to communicate vulnerabilities in systems to other business functions?
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Displaying the count of vulnerabilities across various categories (e.g., asset type, application, business) on a dynamic dashboard enables monitoring and operations staff to easily grasp and enhances overall awareness (e.g., 'Unpatched Vulnerabilities).

13. What strategies do you employ to enhance awareness of vulnerabilities?

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