Vulnerability Management System (VMS)

Overview

Many vendors and security sources across the internet talk about risk, though none of them look at it from YOUR perspective - they can't. These sources have no understanding of which technologies you are using, or how you use them. They have no understanding of your layers of protection available to you or how up to date those defences are.

When any piece of news/information is presented to you for the first time, you have to relate it to your business, your technology, your defences. With so much information (both from the internet and from your internal logs) it is a difficult, time expensive task to undertake.

The paradox is that the more information you are faced with, the more complex the task of truly understanding where you stand against the threats in the wild is. What you need is relevant information that can help your business make decisions about what IS risk to you and what is irrelevant.

Even worse, the security technologies do not integrate together to provide you with a clear picture of the level of security that they are providing. This often results in time being spent 'fixing' the wrong problems, or spent fixing the same problem 3 or 4 times!

VMS is an integrated Risk Management Platform which enables clients to maximise their security condition awareness by relating threat data from the internet with protection and detection data from their own network, this is the only solution on the marketplace that is able to give a clear picture of the threats facing client's organisation and how well they are defended.

Benefits:

Integrates security intelligence with clients existing security technologies.

Avoid costs from 'overfixing' by having a better view of the security layers already in place.

A Blended threat has meant a blended approach to security, encompassing multiple layers of defence. VMS enables clients to determine the levels of protection provided by each layer of defence, allowing them to minimise the amount of costly 'patching' to systems when protection is provided elsewhere within their security portfolio, or indeed if the risk has been avoided by undertaking other measures.

Target and focus resources on reducing risk in the most efficient manner, where it really matters most.

Multiple solutions are available for the same problem through our chosen solutions, although they all differ in terms of effectiveness and cost. VMS enables clients to realise which solution could be implemented in the fastest time, for the least cost.

Realise the cost/efficiency of those solutions by comparing how/when they historically provided a 'solution'.

How you spend your security budget, no matter how large, is important. VMS enables you to realise the value of those isolated silo's of technology and solutions used, by historically comparing if and when they first provided a layer of defence for each risk to your environment. VMS will focus on the threats that were found across your environment, relating them to your defence posture from each solution at the time of the attack.

Enable decisions to be made about the viability of future projects.

By truly understanding the facts behind the hype, you will be able to decide what level of security investment is required to achieve a desired level of risk. With the inevitable drive towards opening up the 'glass house' and putting your most valuable assets within grasp of the internet VMS enables you to make the decision of exactly how much protection they need whilst keeping the inconvenience to a minimum.

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