The rate at which new security vulnerabilities are being discovered continues to increase and the time it takes to develop and share exploits for those vulnerabilities (in the form of manual exploits, worms, viruses and Trojans) continues to decrease. As a result, it is no longer sufficient for organizations to perform yearly or even quarterly network audits.

For Security Best Practice, organizations should perform vulnerability management on a daily or weekly basis. Vulnerability management is a lifecycle process consisting of six steps:

1. Discovery

Discover all assets across the network, and identify host details including operating system and open services.

2. Asset Prioritization

	Manage your network by categorizing assets into groups or business units.
	Assign a business value to asset groups based on its criticality to your business operation.

3. Assessment & Analysis

	Determine a baseline risk profile so you can focus on eliminating risks based on asset criticality.
	Identify security vulnerabilities on a regular automated schedule.
	Measure the level of business risk associated with your assets according to your security policies.
	Trend overall security posture over time.

4. Remediation

Prioritize and fix vulnerabilities by business risk.

5. Verification

Verify the elimination of threats through follow-up audits.

6. Policy Compliance

Establish appropriate security policies, processes, and standards that support regulatory and organizational compliance.

Achieve compliance and spot emerging issues through fully secure audit trails and trend analysis.

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