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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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