Glossary

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Key Cybersecurity Terms

Our glossary of software threat exposure management terms offers concise definitions of the evolving language of cybersecurity.

Vulnerability Management Platform 

A vulnerability management platform is a system that discovers, tracks, and reports on vulnerabilities across an organization’s IT, cloud, and OT assets, typically providing a centralized inventory of known weaknesses along with severity scoring and remediation workflow tools. 

Vulnerability management platforms are most effective when paired with a layer that tests which of the discovered vulnerabilities are actually exploitable in the specific environment, since not every listed vulnerability represents the same level of real-world risk. 

Ridge Security vulnerability management platform support: It integrates with leading vulnerability management platforms, including Tenable, Rapid7, and Qualys, adding exploitability testing on top of their findings. This turns a large list of potential vulnerabilities into a small, prioritized, actionable report of confirmed, exploitable risk.