Next Generation Vulnerability Management

The Rootshell Platform is a vendor-agnostic Vulnerability Management solution that puts you at the centre of your IT security ecosystem. Consolidate assessment results, accelerate remediation from start to finish, and gain real-time insight into your threat landscape.

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Consolidate vulnerability management and penetration testing

The Rootshell Platform enables you to consolidate results from any scanner or penetration testing vendor. This makes it easy to analyse different assessment results alongside each other, helping you make the best decisions for your organization. (Read about our Vulnerability Management Best Practices.)

  • Import results from any security assessment provider in a few clicks
  • Support for major third-party scanners, including Nessus, Qualys, Tenable, and more
  • Require your security assessment providers to input your results into The Rootshell Platform
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Integrate and standardize your assessment data

The Rootshell Platform generates a database of your results in a standardized format, making it easy to manage all your vulnerabilities in one place and saving your team the time spent on manual data admin.

  • Manage all your vulnerabilities from one database
  • Automatically standardize the format of your assessment data
  • Search, filter, and tag results
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Contextualize and prioritize your assessment data

The Rootshell Platform’s industry-leading Daily Exploit Detection helps you gain context of your issues in real-time, helping you prioritize most effectively.

  • The Rootshell Platform integrates with exploit resources to add context to your issues
  • Be alerted as soon as an exploit becomes available for your issue
  • Assign priority ratings to your assets to easily track your most important ones

Streamline your remediation workflow

By eliminating the need for spreadsheets, PDFs, and manual processes, The Rootshell Platform modernizes vulnerability management programmes and makes every aspect of your remediation workflow faster and more efficient.

  • Integrate with ticketing systems (JIRA and ServiceNow)

  • Enhance collaboration between colleagues, testers, and third-parties
  • Receive live updates from tests
  • Streamline project management, including a calendar view for your tests
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Track and validate your remediation results

With The Rootshell Platform, you can measure your remediation efforts against your service level agreements (SLAs) and track key compliance metrics, such as your monthly remediation rate.

  • Set and measure SLAs

  • Monitor compliance using the Compliance Dashboard
  • See your best performing system owners ranked on the Compliance Leader Board
  • Allow The Rootshell Platform to mark issues as remediated on your behalf with Dynamic Remediation

Find out more about Vulnerability Remediation and Vulnerability Remediation Management Tools.

Track and validate your remediation results

Visualize and analyse technical risk across the whole organization

The Rootshell Platform helps you gain a clear understanding of your global threat landscape and makes it effortless to continuously analyse your technical risk, with insightful dashboards and automated reporting.

  • The Dashboard puts key insights front-and-centre, including the number of exploitable issues

  • See trending data across your digital estate
  • The Rootshell Platform takes the legwork out of reporting, providing you with useful charts and graphs

More reading on this topic: Continuous Vulnerability Management, Threat and Vulnerability Management, Cloud Vulnerability Management

Frequently Asked Questions About Vulnerability Management

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 vulnerability management security is to ensure that organizations have complete visibility and control of weaknesses that exist within their IT estates on a continuous basis.

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 vulnerability management system could be a software, platform, or application that helps security teams implement effective vulnerability management. Learn more about vulnerability management systems.

  • Discover: Identify vulnerabilities within your organization’s network by carrying out vulnerability assessments.
  • Consolidate: Centralise your assessment results in one place using an effective vulnerability manager. This could involve transferring results from PDFs to a standardised database.
  • Assess: Analyse your vulnerabilities to establish their severity, the likelihood that they will be exploited, and what impact they could have on your organization.
  • Prioritize: Assign severity scores to your assets in line with your analysis, and other factors such as resource availability.
  • Remediate: Implement your remediation program to resolve vulnerabilities in line with your organization’s priorities.
  • Re-assess: Verify whether your remediation efforts have been successful. Ultimately, your vulnerability management process should reduce the risk of your organization being compromised.
  • 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 an essential part of an organization’s IT security strategy.

Effective security and vulnerability management help IT security teams ensure that critical issues are discovered, analysed, and remediated as fast and efficiently as possible. This is critical to minimising an organization’s attack surface and preventing cyberattacks, which could have devastating consequences for an organization’s data, personnel, and reputation.

Vulnerability management also helps organizations allocate resources more effectively. Not all security vulnerabilities pose the same risk, and many may not even need to be remediated. Effective vulnerability management provides a framework for security teams to assess and prioritise vulnerabilities, so organizations can ensure that resources are allocated to the most critical issues.

Another reason why security vulnerability management is so important is because an organization’s threat landscape is ever-changing. The cyclical process of vulnerability management helps security teams assess and measure their security posture on a continuous basis so that there is very little opportunity for critical issues to be left unaddressed.

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.