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Risk-based Vulnerability Management

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Risk-based vulnerability management (RBVM)

Risk-based vulnerability management (RBVM) is a cybersecurity process that reduces vulnerabilities across your attack surface by prioritizing remediation based on the degree of risk they pose to your organization. Unlike legacy vulnerability management, risk-based vulnerability management goes beyond just discovering vulnerabilities. 

Risk-based vulnerability management aims to identify and remediate vulnerabilities that pose the greatest risk to an organization. Demand for this capability has increased in recent years given the exponential rise in endpoints as well as increased complexity within the IT environment. 

Ridge Security vulnerability management: Its platform for risk-based vulnerability management produces a business risk-based assessment rather than a typical penetration test report, clearly prioritizing exploited vulnerabilities. This gives business teams the critical risk information they need: executives get a summarized overview of enterprise business risk, compliance teams use the report to satisfy compliance auditors, and SecOps and DevOps teams can conduct continuous security testing before every release.