Proactive Visibility Is Foundational to Strong Cybersecurity


Exposures are more than CVEs, so organizations need to move beyond the traditional thinking of vulnerability management to a holistic view. Part of that view must be greater visibility into devices, users, applications, and all the digital infrastructure connected to an organization’s environment. Gaps in that view create risk exposure.

Organizations must proactively identify anything that presents a risk to determine whether to act. Solutions that improve visibility discover assets, aggregate all asset data in one place, and enrich that data to understand the relationships between users, assets, and applications.

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Source: Rapid7


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