Why vulnerability coverage should matter to your organization?

When it comes to data protection and security, organizations can leverage multiple tools and approaches. So why scan for vulnerabilities??

Vulnerabilities are attack vectors in an organization that can result in loss of confidentiality, integrity, or availability. The more vulnerabilities that VM software finds, the more opportunities an organization has to close those paths to hackers. CVEs are standard, consistent ways to identify and measure vulnerabilities across vendors. They are standardized descriptions of vulnerabilities and the key metric of the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) project, which includes “databases of security checklist references, security-related software flaws, misconfigurations, product names, and impact metrics.”

Technology vendors and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) collaborate to make the NVD work, and NIST assigns, manages, and oversees CVEs. NIST is part of the US Department of Commerce and, as such, can be considered a clearinghouse at the US-government level. According to NIST, enables automation of vulnerability management, security measurement, and compliance.