The continuous process of identifying, assessing, prioritising and remediating security weaknesses across systems and software to reduce the risk of exploitation, integrating asset discovery, severity scoring, threat intelligence and remediation tracking.
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- Vulnerability management is a recurring discipline within cybersecurity that combines asset discovery, scanning, severity scoring, prioritisation and remediation tracking. It aims to ensure that known weaknesses in operating systems, applications and configurations are addressed before they can be exploited.
- Effective programmes integrate threat intelligence and exploitability data so that limited remediation capacity is directed at the vulnerabilities posing the greatest real-world risk, supporting broader risk management and compliance objectives.