Vulnerability Management Lifecycle Support

Our Vulnerability Management Lifecycle (VML) support service provides an end-to-end process that articulates actionable insight and discovery of critical vulnerabilities within the crevices of applications and systems.

Vulnerability Management

Vulnerability Management (VM) is the process of identifying, prioritizing, remediating, and reporting vulnerabilities – weaknesses that reduce the protection of integrity, availability, authenticity, non repudiation, and confidentiality. VM depends on configuration, change, asset, and network security to manage vulnerabilities. With the ever-increasing number of malware, applications, systems, cloud, and configuration deficiencies, most organizations are stranded in managing vulnerabilities. Legacy programs exist, and security approaches change over time and can produce risks when vulnerabilities age. A modernized VML is a continuous engagement that seeks to mitigate or remediate vulnerabilities before cyberattackers cause damage.

Active Remediation Plan

Provides the current state of analysis, risk reduction taskings, and roadmap to determine remediation activities and the Top 10, 25, or 50 hosts or vulnerabilities.

Cybersecurity Governance

Defines goals, policies, organizational ownership, metrics, and scopes TVMR for policy design and program structure.

Security Analytics and Reporting

Keen at deriving data elements and designing actionable views for data correlation based on risk prioritization and enterprise cyber protection goals.

Current State Analysis

Performs reviews and recommendations to discover the current security state for risks, vulnerabilities, tools, programs, and operations.

Vulnerability Assessment

Utilizes various tools, controls, and testing methodologies to identify security deficiencies and blind spots within the architect and technical operations.

Remediation Process Implementation

Designs program remediation standards and
approach via reviewing prioritization, assets,
SLAs, and remediation timelines.

Risk Management

Able to align resources, processes, and
services for I.T. Risk Assessments in support
of NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF),
UMass, Cyber Security Readiness Inspection
(CCRI), NESSUS, SCAP, & STIG scans.

Threat Intel

Expert at gathering threat data, resources,
and impact to enterprise based on an architect, systems, and vulnerable endpoints and correlating detection to exploits and impacts.

Cyber Tools

We can consult and advise on best practices for implementing and operating vulnerability management and cybersecurity tools. Our service helps produce better coverage and reporting.

What Does Our VML Advisory Service Provide

The most mature cyber organization has discovered themselves unable to develop an end-to-end vulnerability management program. This is where SEMAIS can support in modeling and implementing a VML that supports security visibility, risk reduction, and increased protection by:

Assessing a Configuration Database (CMDB) to identify and report missing or inaccurate assets

Supporting the design of a RACI chart to outline roles and responsibilities

Developing APIs to integrate tools such as ServiceNow, BigFix, Tenable, or PowerBI

Providing and identifying threats to specific platforms and applications

Prioritizing risks based on CVSS, threat intelligence, severities, and scanned inputs

Connecting the VML program to Incident Response, Penetration Testing, GRC, ITSM, and other cybersecurity programs

Assisting with designing and engineering compliance scanner and connected tools

Developing and managing backlog and burndown campaigns for vulnerabilities

Creating scan schedules and target groups for assets and software under scope.

Delivering status reports that highlight trending over a specific time – 30, 60, 90 days

Integrating workstream solutions into a VML and its operations