Vulnerability Management Services

SAPPHIRE: VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT SERVICE

In a world reliant on software and hardware, vulnerabilities often form the first part of an attack chain leading to infrastructure disruption, data theft, and more.

In a fast-paced threat landscape, identifying and managing vulnerabilities is a complex and time-consuming task for even the most well-resourced organisation – this is where Vulnerability Management comes into play.

The Sapphire Vulnerability Management Managed Service views the potentially vulnerable environment, from IT and cloud to containers. Working in close partnership with customers, this dynamic picture to detect vulnerabilities allows for the rapid identification, investigation, and remediation of vulnerabilities.

What does Sapphire offer?

Sapphire delivers a fully managed vulnerability management service, with customised customer-specific reports and dashboards. In addition to this, we offer expert reviews of findings. Our service offering includes:

UK-based Security Operations Centre
All-Platform Continuous Vulnerability Detection
Expert Cyber Security Team
MITRE Attack Framework Mapping
Risk-based Vulnerability Prioritisation
Executive, Compliance and Technical Reporting
Quarterly Scope Reviews
24×7 Alerting and Response
External Perimeter Scanning
Advanced Vulnerability Threat Intelligence
Technology Stack Monitoring
Real-time Exploitation Trend Analysis

In addition to this, our managed service delivers a quarterly review of all platform components: patches, incremental updates and version upgrades and a quarterly systems health check.

VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT PROCESS

Asset Tracking

Pinpoint the identity of each resource in your environment, including dynamic IT assets like laptops, virtual machines, and cloud instances, using an extensive set of attributes to accurately track changes to assets, regardless of how they roam or how long they last.

Streamlined User Interface

A modern interface with pre-defined templates and configuration audit checks that follow best practice frameworks, such as CIS and DISA STIG, together with experienced security consultants, helps protect your organisation and maximise your return on investment.

Simplified Integrations

Pre-built integrations with complementary systems streamline your vulnerability management program quickly and easily.

Why Vulnerability Management?

Watchful

Dynamic scanning, agents, and cloud connectors combined with coverage of more than 62,000 vulnerabilities provide a holistic view of the exposure of an entire estate. In addition, Sapphire’s vulnerability management services provide continuous monitoring for more comprehensive coverage of potential threats.

Intelligent

Threat data is combined with easy-to-understand risk scores to allow prioritisation and a high cadence of operations. Also, monthly, and quarterly reports will give you a high-level overview of strategic purposes and board reporting.

Remediate

Analyse the threat with detailed reporting and console access. Then, consult with Sapphire’s security team, who can assist with the remediation process of threats and re-testing vulnerability exploits.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQS)

1. What is vulnerability management?

Vulnerability management involves identifying, evaluating, remediating, and re-testing security vulnerabilities. Integral to the security strategy and executed as part of a layered security posture, it allows organisations to identify and minimise risk.

2. What are the main types of vulnerability?

Hardware and software vulnerabilities are of key concern for organisations. With more and more code deployed in the enterprise environment, problems with insecure or poorly written software have been responsible for some of the most high-profile breaches.

3. What is the difference between vulnerability management and vulnerability assessment?

Vulnerability management is generally an ongoing process managed by people, process and technology, whereas a vulnerability assessment, or one-off scan, is a ‘point in time’ analysis.

4. What are vulnerability management tools?

Vulnerability management tools scan the attack surface and identify vulnerabilities to mitigate risk. In addition, Sapphire provides a cloud-based platform that helps with vulnerability detection and alerting. The vulnerability management platform monitors your networks, applications, and critical systems and alerts you on any vulnerabilities that could compromise business operations.

5. What is the difference between vulnerability management and patch management?

Vulnerability management involves identifying and reporting vulnerabilities in a network. Patch management is where software vulnerabilities are remediated by updating or patching the exploitable code.

6. Why do we need a vulnerability management program?

In most organisations, the attack surface is open to numerous vulnerabilities. Any externally visible connected asset can be compromised by an attacker, given enough time, focus, and resources. Tracking and identifying this across any enterprise is a complex and continual process for vulnerability management programs.

7. How do vulnerability scanners work?

Vulnerability scanners are automated tools that allow organisations to check if their systems or networks have security issues that attackers can exploit. Scanners may be deployed internally or externally, giving public and private vulnerabilities visibility.

8. What Are The Six Stages Of The Vulnerability Management Process?

• Full scoping exercise of customer environment.
• Dedicated management platform per customer.
• Architecture and initial service start-up.
• Tracked through project management for full transparency.
• Fast and accurate scanning both externally and internally with the industry’s broadest asset and vulnerability coverage

Vulnerability Management

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