Adopt an exposure management program that identifies, prioritizes and manages the remediation of flaws that could expose your most-critical assets
A comprehensive solution for exposure management
Identifying, prioritizing and remediating the endless number of vulnerabilities—those with and without common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs)—within your IT infrastructure is an overwhelming yet essential task. Just one misconfiguration or default password can lead to a compromise of your entire network.
IBM offers a comprehensive solution to identify, prioritize and address high-risk vulnerabilities in organizations.
This modular service includes tool deployment, management and consulting, with a hacker-built ranking engine for effective prioritization. It also integrates leading attack surface management tools, providing valuable insights for vulnerability remediation.
Prioritize the remediation of flaws with and without CVEs, such as misconfigurations, default passwords and weak permissions. This prioritization can be achieved with the use of attack correlation, intelligence sources and the integration with the CIS Benchmarks and US Department of Defense System Agency’s Security Technical Implementation Guides.
A concurrent remediation model helps make the process manageable no matter the size of your team. The most critical vulnerabilities are sent to remediators and after they are fixed, the next batch arrives.
Vulnerability management helps you comply with data protection mandates in regulations such as the GDPR, HIPAA and PCI DSS and avoid the significant impact of penalties and damage to your reputation.
Use cases
- Vulnerability scanning fundamentals
- Vulnerability data validation
- Vulnerability prioritization
- Remediation management
- Ad hoc scan requests
- Vulnerability assessments
End-to-end vulnerability scanning support
Using your preferred scanning solution, provide deployment, support and premium scanning services. The team works with you to identify which applications and systems are the most important. It then configures the scanning tools, profiles, schedules and reports to identify vulnerabilities at the wanted depth, and help you to meet your security and regulatory requirements.
Vulnerability validation for overlooked input errors
Validate identified vulnerabilities that can be overlooked, such as input errors when data comes from untrusted sources, is purposefully or incorrectly entered—that can lead to attacks.
Automated risk-based prioritization of scan results
Scan results are loaded into the hacker-built automated ranking engine, which prioritizes findings based on weaponized exploits and key risk factors, such as asset value and exposure.
Expert-guided risk mitigation
Facilitate the remediation process. If subject-matter expertise is needed, we help ensure the highest risk vulnerabilities are fixed or compensating countermeasures are applied.
On-demand vulnerability scanning
Conduct out-of-schedule scanning, reporting and scan profile updates, based on changes to the environment or new vulnerabilities released publicly.
Executive-level vulnerability insights
Present vulnerability management research and findings to your executive team, in their language. This helps generate executive-level support for prioritizing and patching critical vulnerabilities.
Case study
Global bank digs out of a mountain of vulnerabilities
A huge number of critical cybersecurity issues threatened to overwhelm the bank’s vulnerability management team. X-Force® Red hackers dove in and four months later, the bank saw a 60% reduction in critical vulnerabilities and nearly a 45% total reduction in vulnerabilities.
Armed with the insights of our 2026 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index report, our team can help you secure your business against cyberthreats. We are offering briefings with our expert team of intelligence analysts to give you customized insights about your organization.
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