Vulnerability Response and Remediations

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Vulnerability Response and Remediation

• Involves strategies and actions for identifying, assessing, and addressing vulnerabilities
• Aims to mitigate risks associated with known vulnerabilities

Patching

• Process of applying updates to fix software, system, or application vulnerabilities
• Patches released by software vendors
• End users must update their software to apply security patches

Insurance Policy

• Procuring a cybersecurity insurance policy as a risk management strategy
• Mitigates financial losses resulting from cyber incidents (data breach, network outage, business interruption)
• Covers mitigation, remediation, recovery costs, legal fees, public relations, and customer notification

Network Segmentation

• Dividing a network into smaller segments to improve performance and security
• Isolates segments from each other to prevent threat propagation

Compensating Controls

• Alternative security measures when standard controls cannot be effectively implemented
• Tailored to provide equivalent protection

Exception and Exemption

• Exception
  • Temporarily relaxing or bypassing security controls or policies for operational business needs, with an understanding of associated risks
• Exemption
  • A permanent waiver of security controls or policies due to specific reasons, often for legacy systems