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Step 3: Automate Your Process

Automation is the key to making vulnerability prioritization work effectively. The volume of vulnerabilities
is way too high and security teams are way to lean to go through each vulnerability one-by-one.
Automation is done with risk-based vulnerability management married with threat intelligence and
controls analysis. Whatever platform you choose should be able to:

• Continuously monitor with live assessment data
• Auto-discover assets and classify them
• Auto-sync updates from the National Vulnerability Database
• Prioritize findings that include currently exploited vulnerabilities from sources like CISA
• Present remediation guidance on how to remediate critical risks

Risk-based vulnerability management powered with automation enables your team to prioritize
remediation of the most impactful vulnerabilities. You will become more effective by knowing what to
remediate and how to remediate the identified vulnerabilities to reduce the critical risks to your
organization.

About the Author

Victor Gamra, CISSP, is a former CISO and the Founder and CEO of
FortifyData. FortifyData is an automated cyber risk management
platform that provides risk-based vulnerability management, third-
party risk management, security ratings and cyber risk quantification.
Visit www.fortifydata.com for more information.

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