SOLUTION BRIEF

Risk-Based Vulnerability &Patch Management from Ivanti
Implement risk-based prioritization
Overwhelming volumes of vulnerabilities.
Inadequate information that misrepresents
vulnerability risk. Time-consuming, error-prone
manual processes. Friction between IT andsecurity teams that delays — or blocks —remediation efforts.
These are the hallmarks of legacy vulnerability
management — an approach that leaves
organizations highly exposed to attacks, despite
their best efforts. All the while, the most criticalthose that can be ignored is effectively impossible

74%

using most popular prioritization methods. Not only doPercentage of ransomware vulnerabilities notthese methods miscalculate the risk associated withrated Critical under CVSS v3.1

Organizations are drowning in vulnerabilities.
Separating those that need to be remediated frommany vulnerabilities, they represent just one step of an
often prolonged vulnerability management process.
Move from detection of vulnerabilities andweaknesses to remediation in minutes — not months— with a contextualized, risk-based view of yourvulnerabilities remain unaddressed.

cybersecurity posture. Ivanti’s risk-based vulnerability

Overcome these issues with Ivanti’s risk-based

correlates an organization’s infrastructure with internal

vulnerability and patch management solution,
which empowers you to manage cybersecurity
risk more efficiently and effectively.

and patch management solution continuously
and external vulnerability data, threat intelligence,
manual pen test and research-based findings, andbusiness asset criticality to measure risk and prioritize
remediation activities accordingly.

ivanti.com

Unlike the Common Vulnerability Scoring System(CVSS), Ivanti’s proprietary scoring algorithm accounts
for active threat context when assigning a risk
rating to a vulnerability. Our solution also specifically
identifies remote code execution, privilege escalation
and ransomware vulnerabilities, and vulnerabilities
that are trending and active. This information helps
organizations focus on vulnerabilities that pose themost credible, high-impact risks.

Streamline your vulnerability
management processes■ Set vulnerability closure due dates automaticallywith service-level agreement automation.

timely resolution of vulnerabilities by arming both

■ Gain near-real-time awareness of pertinent events

53%
Percentage of IT and security professionals thatsay organizing and prioritizing vulnerabilities
takes up most of their time.2

Legacy vulnerability management is a never-ending
process that entails vulnerability scanning, data

Bridge the gap between IT and security to ensuresides with the same visibility and intelligence. With
Ivanti’s risk-based vulnerability and patch managementwith automated notifications.
■ Pass CVEs from security to IT via an API — notemail or chat — and map them to available

solution, patch admins have access to the same risk
ratings, vulnerability intelligence and dashboards as
the security team. This ensures everyone is on thepatches automatically.
■ Distribute thoroughly tested patches to thousandsof machines in minutes with autonomous patch
configurations.

same page about prioritization decisions.
Available patch reliability insights indicate when apatch is prone to fail and cause downtime in real-world

Foster collaboration between IT andsecurity stakeholders

environments. These insights let IT and security alikeknow when a temporary mitigation may be required untila vulnerability can be remediated with a reliable patch.

gathering, result interpretation, prioritizing, patching
and reporting. Many of these steps involve manualtasks that introduce human error into the process,causing critical vulnerabilities to fall through thecracks. These labor-intensive, time-consuming tasks
also delay the patching of vulnerabilities that do get
identified and prioritized.

Lack of cooperation
between teams

ivanti.com#1 challenge in defending against cyberattacks

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per security and IT decision makers.3

sales@ivanti.com

Eliminate vulnerability management mistakes and1.

reduce mean time to remediation with theseIn vulnerability management, the security teamadvanced capabilities:

determines the risks to the business. Their decisions■ Quickly arrive at a fully informed plan of attack

with continuous correlation and analysis ofsecurity data.
■ Automate common or repetitive tasks withplaybooks.

Cyber Security Works, Cyware, Ivanti, Securin. (2023). 2023
Spotlight Report – Ransomware Through the Lens of Threat

influence what needs to be patched and byand Vulnerability Management.
https://cybersecurityworks.com/ransomware/2.

when. Meanwhile, the IT team — which conducts
the patching — is responsible for keeping theIvanti. (2021). Patch Management Challenges: Survey
Results and Insights as Organizations move toEverywhere Workplace.
https://www.ivanti.com/resources/v/doc/organization’s systems online. When these objectives
conflict, negotiations between the teams can impede
patching and leave the organization at risk of attack.

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3. ExtraHop. (2022). Cyber Confidence Index 2022.
https://www.extrahop.com/resources/papers/cyberconfidence-index-2022/

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