RBVM: 7 Benefits for Enterprise Vulnerability Management
An RBVM solution is essential for enterprises navigating the complex landscape of modern security challenges. This blog post explores the top 7 benefits of RBVM solutions for modern enterprises.
Enterprises move fast. They are constantly expanding, adopting new technologies, and operating at a faster pace than ever before. While these advancements accelerate growth, they also introduce new security challenges. Traditional vulnerability management tools, designed for more static environments, are no longer sufficient. This is where Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (RBVM) solutions play a critical role.
RBVM offers enterprises the ability to not only manage vulnerabilities effectively but also to prioritize and remediate risks efficiently.
RBVM Solution Benefits for Modern Enterprises
1. Keep Up with a Growing Attack Surface
As enterprises grow, their attack surface expands significantly. Every new cloud service, device, and application adds to the complexity of securing the organization. While many enterprises have an asset inventory in a specific tool, this inventory is always incomplete. Assets are managed across multiple systems that are not all owned by the IT team, developers are spinning up ephemeral assets (e.g. containers) as part of their workflows, and scanners are finding new assets that aren’t in the inventory all the time. As a result, teams struggle with assets that exist and are not being scanned, and assets that are being scanned but don’t exist in the inventory.
An RBVM solution offers comprehensive visibility across the entire infrastructure and code—whether it's on-premises, in the cloud, or distributed globally. It correlates findings from all the security tools, ensures all assets are accounted for, and then provides prioritization. This enables enterprises to monitor their attack surface effectively and reduce potential entry points for attackers.
2. Prioritize the Most Critical Vulnerabilities
Not all vulnerabilities pose the same level of threat, but without a structured system, enterprises often waste time and resources trying to fix low-risk issues or bombarding IT and development teams with far too many tickets. Modern enterprises require a solution that allows them to focus on vulnerabilities that pose the highest risk to their critical assets.
RBVM uses risk-based prioritization, factoring in the severity of vulnerabilities, the context of the asset, and the potential business impact. By leveraging these factors along with advanced threat intelligence and automated risk scoring, RBVM enables enterprises to address the vulnerabilities that matter most, ensuring a more strategic use of resources and burning down 90% of the vulnerability backlog.
3. Enable Adaptation to Fast-Paced Development Cycles
With the adoption of Agile and DevOps methodologies, enterprises are releasing new features and products at an unprecedented pace. However, this rapid development often leads to security oversights. Traditional vulnerability management solutions for AppSec can’t keep up with the constant code changes and fast release cycles.
By unifying vulnerability management across applications, infrastructure, cloud, and containers, RBVM solutions seamlessly integrate into DevOps workflows, automating security checks and vulnerability assessments without slowing down the pipeline. This creates governance and guardrails for developers in the CI/CD pipeline, ensuring vulnerabilities are identified early in the development cycle. In this way, RBVM benefits enterprises by enabling faster software releases and agile development without compromising security.
4. Manage Vulnerabilities in Expansive and Diverse Infrastructure Environments
Many enterprises operate across diverse environments, from public clouds and private data centers to remote office setups in different corners of the world. This expansive infrastructure makes vulnerability management a daunting task, with assets scattered across multiple locations and solutions.
Modern RBVM solutions simplify this process by offering agentless architectures and API-based integration, eliminating the complexities of traditional security agent deployments. These solutions provide a centralized approach to vulnerability management, offering visibility across all environments. This allows enterprises to unify vulnerability data, track the status and owner of the assets regardless of location, and ensure consistent security practices.
With the ability to scale, RBVM solutions ensure that no asset is left unprotected, no matter the size or diversity of the infrastructure.
5. Scale with Rapid Technology Evolution
Technology is evolving at an incredible pace. From AI-driven applications to IoT devices, the enterprise tech landscape is growing more complex. Developers want to try new technology stacks for better user performance. However, with every new advancement, there are new risks and vulnerabilities to manage.
A vendor-agnostic RBVM solution works with any underlying tech stack. It provides continuous updates and integrates with any new security tools and solutions. Whether your enterprise is adopting containerized applications, microservices, or the latest cloud technologies, an RBVM solution will ensure that your security strategies and processes are not hampered. This keeps your enterprise secure amidst rapid technological changes and growth.
6. Reduce Time to Remediation with Automation
Manually tracking, prioritizing, and remediating vulnerabilities on a spreadsheet is time-consuming, especially in complex environments where thousands of vulnerabilities may be identified daily. This often results in delayed remediation and prioritization of low-risk vulnerabilities, exposing the enterprises to risk.
RBVM solutions automate much of the vulnerability management process, from correlating and prioritizing vulnerabilities to assigning risk scores and managing remediation workflows. By automating these processes, developers can remediate critical vulnerabilities faster, reducing the time between detection and remediation. This not only enhances organization’s security posture but also reduces the workload for security and development teams.
7. Improve Collaboration Between Security and IT Teams
For vulnerability management to be successful, collaboration between security and IT/development teams is essential. Security teams identify vulnerabilities, but IT and developer teams are responsible for fixing them. Poor communication and siloed processes can lead to delays and inefficiencies.
RBVM solutions foster better collaboration between security and IT/development teams by easily integrating into their workflows. It provides a unified dashboard where vulnerabilities can be tracked, prioritized, and assigned to the right owners. This streamlined process ensures that vulnerabilities are addressed promptly and the right asset owners get the right tickets.
ArmorCode’s RBVM Solution for Enterprises
As enterprises grow and evolve, the need for a Risk-Based Vulnerability Management solution becomes more apparent. The complexity of modern infrastructure, coupled with the rapid pace of technological change, requires a solution that can provide comprehensive visibility, prioritize risks, and automate remediation processes. For modern dynamic enterprises, an RBVM solution is not just another tool but a strategic necessity.
ArmorCode’s AI-powered ASPM Platform unifies vulnerability management across infrastructure, cloud, containers, and applications in a single AI-powered platform with tailored, automated workflows. It is a vendor-agnostic platform designed to address the complex security challenges dynamic enterprises face today.
By offering comprehensive visibility, AI Correlation, AI Remediation, risk-based prioritization, and seamless integration with modern development workflows, ArmorCode reduces the time to remediation, improves collaboration between security and IT teams, and ensures efficient resource utilization.
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