How Vulnerability Management Helps Threat Intelligence

Analysts specialising in vulnerability management use cyber threat intelligence in order to determine the critical vulnerabilities and in an attempt to help determine strategies that allow them to develop strategies that allow optimal mitigation.

Along with that, they are responsible for the communication of risks to managers and other groups that are responsible for cybersecurity. Cyber threat intelligence companies today use vulnerability assessment as a major part of their service portfolio and rightly so! Vulnerability assessment is an important part of cyber threat intelligence company. 

How it helps:

Comprehension of relevance and the extent of vulnerability

CTI can work to connect the weaknesses with treat agents,  the way they work, their procedures and ultimate targets. Using this information analysts can determine the type of vulnerabilities that affect the systems and all software in the organisation and which ones are most likely to be targeted by the attackers.

Provides content on exploits and kits

CTI companies hire researcher that work for them in order to study the dark web. And discover and track exploits and exploit kits that are discussed and offered for sale, by cybercriminals.Those vulnerabilities for which exploit kits are available on the dark web and are being used effectively, have more chances of being targeted in the future.  

This provides companies with an insight into the type of vulnerability that needs to be mitigated and patched immediately and which weakness should be tended to, later prioritising the vulnerabilities. 

Techniques for mitigation

CTI companies have knowledge bases that store data for patches that are prevalent to specific vulnerabilities. They also contain important information related to mitigation techniques to be used in the case of absence of patches or will take a longer time to deploy.

Creation of rules for firewall, application of firewalls and intrusion prevent=ion systems are some of the techniques that can be used for mitigation. changing the configuration  of weakened systems, and the use of password policies and increased  monitoring of systems in an attempt to strengthen  access can also be used to enhance security against vulnerabilities.

Assessing organisation business risk

CTI can describe how the weaknesses and vulnerabilities of organisation cybersecurity can be exploited due to advanced attacks and how when incorporated into a business context it can help with the assessment of the company's business risk. 

The activity allows analysts to work with the IT and business unit to determine the impact to the business and identifies which aspects of the company need to be monitored while remediating and patching occurs.

Bottom line

A competent cyber threat intelligence company can help your vulnerability analysts to not only better understand who might be using these vulnerabilities and for how but they also help reduce the risks to business by prioritising vulnerabilities, highlighting critical threats and preparing for the less critical ones.

It also helps estimate the risk to businesses giving them an idea of how critical a single incident may be to the organisation.

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