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Continuous Vulnerability Management

Continuously monitor, analyse, and manage your threat landscape with The Rootshell Platform. Our vendor-agnostic platform makes it effortless to implement effective continuous vulnerability management.

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Continuous Vulnerability Management

Today’s threat actors work around the clock to quickly exploit changes in organizations’ systems.

By moving towards continuous vulnerability management practices, IT security teams can close the gaps between security assessments and significantly reduce risk.

The Rootshell Platform is a vendor-agnostic vulnerability management solution that makes it effortless to continuously monitor your threat landscape and remediate issues. It puts you at the centre of your IT ecosystem and equips you with the tools you need to successfully manage your vulnerabilities on an ongoing basis.

How to Implement Continuous Vulnerability Management

Here are just some of the ways our platform helps you implement continuous vulnerability management.

Centralize Your Vulnerabilities

Our platform is vendor-agnostic, so you can use it to consolidate results from any scanner or vendor and manage your vulnerabilities in one place. This makes it seamless for you to continuously analyse, prioritize, and manage all issues across your estate.

Continuously monitor, analyse, and manage vulnerabilities with Rootshell

Close the Gaps Between Scans and Pen Tests

The time between vulnerability scans and penetration tests is the time when your organization could be at risk.

Our industry-leading Daily Exploit Detection alerts you to exploits for your issues on a daily basis, so you can close these gaps, monitor your threat landscape in real-time, and prioritize most effectively.

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Automate Reporting and Analytics

The Rootshell Platform serves you important metrics from your vulnerability management programme. The platform’s insightful dashboards and automated reports help you continuously analyse your technical risk and measure compliance.

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Up To Date Data

The Rootshell Platform ensures you are always referring to the most recent data from your vulnerability scans. The platform can compare scans on your behalf and mark resolved issues as remediated.

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Track Critical Assets

Our platform makes manual asset management a thing of the past. You can assign priority ratings to your assets, making it easy to track and analyse those which are most critical to your organization on an ongoing basis.

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Streamline Remediation

By eliminating the need for spreadsheets, PDFs, and manual processes, our platform modernizes vulnerability management programmes and makes it easy for teams to deliver effective continuous vulnerability management.

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Best Practice Continuous Vulnerability Management

We have aligned The Rootshell Platform with the Gartner® Vulnerability Management Cycle, making it effortless for IT Security Teams to adopt best practice continuous vulnerability management processes.

  • Consolidate your suppliers’ assessment data
  • Integrate and standardize your assessment data
  • Contextualize and prioritize your assessment data
  • Streamline your remediation workflow
  • Track and validate your remediation results
  • Visualize and analyse technical risk across the whole organization

Frequently Asked Questions About Continuous Vulnerability Management

Continuous vulnerability management is the cyclical process of identifying, evaluating, prioritising, and remediating security flaws within an organization’s network, systems, and applications.

The goal of continuous vulnerability management is to ensure that organizations have complete visibility and control of weaknesses that exist within their IT estates on an ongoing basis, so that the risk of a security breach is minimised.

The time in-between vulnerability scans or penetration tests is time when your organization could be at risk. Continuous vulnerability assessment and remediation is essential, as new vulnerabilities could emerge at any time, and pre-existing vulnerabilities could become more critical. By managing your vulnerabilities on a continuous basis, you can minimize the risk of your organization being breached.

  1. Discover: Identify vulnerabilities within your organization’s network by carrying out continuous vulnerability scanning.
  2. Consolidate: Centralise your assessment results in one place. This could involve transferring results from PDFs to a standardized database.
  3. Assess: Analyse your vulnerabilities to establish their severity, the likelihood that they will be exploited, and what impact they could have on your organization.
  4. Prioritize: Assign severity scores to your assets in line with your analysis, and other factors such as resource availability.
  5. Remediate: Implement your continuous vulnerability assessment and remediation program to resolve vulnerabilities in line with your organization’s priorities.
  6. Re-assess: Verify whether your remediation efforts have been successful. Ultimately, your vulnerability management process should reduce the risk of your organization being compromised.
  7. Visualize and improve: Continuously improve your vulnerability management process; resolve any bottlenecks and ensure compliance with your organization’s service level agreements. For example, could you reduce your time-to-remediate (TTR)?

Vulnerability management is not to be confused with a vulnerability assessment. Vulnerability management encompasses the end-to-end process of managing security issues, from discovery to remediation. On the other hand, a vulnerability assessment is a type of IT security test that discovers security issues within an organization’s network.

Risk-based vulnerability management is the process of remediating vulnerabilities in line with the risk they pose to the organization. This could involve using strategic threat intelligence to establish whether a vulnerability is exploitable and taking into account the business context of assets.

A continuous vulnerability management system could be a software, platform, or application that helps security teams implement effective vulnerability management on an ongoing basis. Learn more about vulnerability management systems.