Critical Start, a leading provider of Managed Detection and Response cybersecurity solutions and pioneer of Managed Cyber Risk Reduction (MCRR), announced the general availability of Critical Start Vulnerability Management Service (VMS) and Vulnerability Prioritization. These new offerings are a foundational pillar of Managed Cyber Risk Reduction, allowing organizations to assess, manage, prioritize, and reduce cyber risk exposure posed by vulnerabilities across their environments.
Critical Start’s Vulnerability Management Service is a fully managed service that enables security leaders to effectively run a vulnerability management program by offloading burdensome operational tasks. The managed service leverages Critical Start’s collaboration with Qualys, utilizing its industry leading end-to-end vulnerability management, detection, and response solution (Qualys VMDR). Critical Start’s managed services engineers provide operational execution of vulnerability scanning, ongoing operational monitoring, and detailed reporting, all of which contribute to a comprehensive view of an organization’s exposure landscape. All findings provided to customers are based on expert analysis of vulnerabilities and potential exposures in the customer environment. Customers receive contextualized vulnerability reports and concise directions for effective and efficient vulnerability management that helps them reduce cyber risk and minimize their attack surface.
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The Vulnerability Prioritization capability (optionally included with Vulnerability Management Service or available standalone) identifies high-risk vulnerabilities as calculated by Critical Start based on multiple dimensions including CVSS scores, threat intelligence, exploit weaponization by attack type (ransomware, malware, botnet), asset criticality, and exposure settings due to technical security controls gaps. Critical Start’s Vulnerability Prioritization is founded in the platform’s Asset Visibility capability, which provides a unified asset inventory, calculates asset criticality, and identifies critical controls gaps. This allows security teams to focus remediation efforts on the vulnerabilities that pose the greatest risk and create the most significant exposures for their organizations.
“Organizations understand that effective vulnerability management is critical to reducing their cyber risk exposure, but many struggle with the complexity and effort involved in implementing and running an accurate and timely vulnerability management program,” said Chris Carlson, Chief Product Officer at Critical Start. “By providing Vulnerability Management Service and Vulnerability Prioritization built on top of end-to-end Asset Visibility, this key part of our holistic risk reduction approach enables security teams to easily identify, manage, prioritize, and address the vulnerabilities that matter most to meeting their organization’s risk tolerance, protecting against threats, and minimizing their overall exposure.”
“Collaborating with Critical Start to integrate Qualys Vulnerability Management Detection and Response (VMDR) into their new managed security service empowers our joint customers to identify and remediate vulnerabilities and monitor threats effectively, so they can stay focused on their core business operations,” said Shailesh Athalye, senior vice president, product management at Qualys. “We’re excited to work with Critical Start and extend this service to customers to detect, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities for risks of ransomware and loss of business operations.”
SOURCE: PRNewswire