This step-by-step 101 guide walks through all the settings and configurations needed to effectively manage a vulnerability's end-to-end lifecycle with the Vulcan Cyber ExposureOS platform. It is your reference guide to everything you need to know and apply to utilize the platform and optimize vulnerability remediation from start to finish, focusing on the value and benefit of each step.
The Vulcan Cyber ExposureOS platform feeds from your existing vulnerability scanning tools and asset inventories through dedicated Connectors. Set up Connectors to ingest data from vulnerability scanners, asset management tools, and external feeds such as threat intelligence. By integrating security tools into the Vulcan Cyber ExposureOS platform, you enable efficient management of vulnerability and cyber risk by consolidating scan data from multiple sources into a single stream. You also get a centralized vulnerability and asset comprehensive view of security risk posture across all attack surfaces.
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By defining Business Groups, you apply your organizational business context to cyber risk management. Business Groups let you prioritize risk based on customizable logical groups, such as a business unit, network segment, application and/or asset type, compliance requirements, or any other grouping relevant to your environment. This allows you to prioritize the remediation efforts and resources on the assets that most impact your business.
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By defining Risk Weights, SPR (Security Posture Rating), and SLA (Service Level Agreement), you can achieve effective cyber risk management based on organization-specific context within reasonable timeframes and meet organizational SLAs. The platform's intelligent vulnerability prioritization technology ensures that risk assessments consider relevant context and business-specific impact, enabling security teams to focus on the most critical risks.
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Create and define users to enhance security, streamline collaboration, monitor auditing accountability, and ensure scalability. By defining distinct user accounts and roles, organizations can ensure that only authorized personnel can access sensitive data and specific functionalities (such as Business Groups), preventing unauthorized access and potential breaches. Detailed logging and tracking of actions enhance accountability, while scalability accommodates organizational growth and changes in team structure. User and role management provides a solid foundation for efficient and secure cyber risk management practices.
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Vulcan Cyber ExposureOS orchestrates vulnerability management efforts across infrastructure, cloud, and application environments. This makes it easy to identify, analyze, prioritize, and mitigate vulnerabilities across the entire organization. You can integrate your ticketing tool systems, such as Jira, ServiceNow, and Azure Boards, and open remediation tickets directly through the Vulcan Cyber ExposureOS platform. You can immediately act on specific vulnerabilities with a click (manual) or create playbooks to automate tedious but essential vulnerability management activities. This reduces overhead, accelerates risk mitigation, and significantly lowers mean time to resolution (MTTR). Vulcan Cyber ExposureOS streamlines collaboration between security teams and remediation operations stakeholders by associating risk with assets and attack surfaces and identifying asset owners to assign remediation tasks easily and automatically.
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Creating exception requests allows you to apply the organization's risk-acceptance policy on vulnerabilities through the Vulcan Cyber ExposureOS platform. You can define user permissions, create custom exception request types, and trigger an approval flow for risk-acceptance compliance. Users can view approved "Ignored" vulnerabilities, set approvers and request expiration dates, and receive email notifications as part of the process. With the ability to access and manage exception requests through a dedicated page, organizations can maintain transparency and detailed auditing of approval flows, ensuring a robust and accountable vulnerability management approach.
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Whether you’re reporting to the board, other practitioners, or the compliance team, Vulcan Cyber ExposureOS hands you the dashboards you need to clearly articulate the cyber risk within your organization – so that everybody’s on the same page. Track the progress of cyber risk management campaigns and see exactly where your organization stands when meeting SLAs and timelines. The Cyber ExposureOS Home Page Dashboard and Reports (Analytics) provide a broad spectrum of out-of-the-box reports and customized self-service reports and widgets you can create on your own.
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