Security News > 2021 > December > How organizations should prioritize security vulnerabilities
Organizations are not always linking the actual data on vulnerabilities with the specific risks to their business, says Cyber Vulcan.
With so many security vulnerabilities putting companies at risk, determining which ones to tackle can be a challenge.
For its new report "How are Cyber Security Teams Prioritizing Vulnerability Risk?" security vendor Cyber Vulcan surveyed 200 IT security decision makers in North America to find out how vulnerability risk is prioritized, managed and reduced.
"But considering the fact that NIST discloses and reports about 400 new vulnerabilities each week, IT security teams barely have time to assess and prioritize only the most critical."
Since prioritizing vulnerabilities can prove so challenging, what can security professionals do to improve their process?
"That requires a deep understanding of how to prioritize which vulnerabilities and risks you need to address first. The most effective way to do so is by consolidating vulnerability and cyber risk lifecycle management for infrastructure, applications and cloud assets in one place. That's necessary to ensure that all departments are working together to identify and mitigate risk across your entire attack surface."