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A comprehensive vulnerability management program is the foundation for effective security. Yet, many organizations find it challenging to run an effective program where vulnerabilities are quickly identified and remediated. And for many organizations, not fixing vulnerabilities has consequences.

If you lived in a climate with lots of mosquitos, gnats, and crawly things, your house could easily be overrun with pests. Where would you start to get rid of them? You could buy a fly swatter and start swinging away. But would you be able to swat fast enough to get ahead? Maybe, maybe not. Either way, it doesn’t yet make sense to start using your fly swatter at this point.

The Homeland Security Department’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program can help ensure that your agency has the proper cybersecurity controls in place. The right CDM tools can also help you identify and eliminate threats in your network before they become breaches.

Security teams around the world are struggling to keep up with the rapidly changing threat environment, while facing the pressure of being responsible for any malicious activity that happens on their watch. With so many moving pieces, it’s impossible to identify what threats are impacting your environment without making sure your foundations are covered.

The most basic foundation is visibility.

What should I be watching?

What do you need to watch? It depends on your environment. Effectively, you need to watch:

Tenable Nessus v6.6 has received certification from the Center for Internet Security (CIS) for the Amazon AWS Foundations benchmark; the first and only CIS member to receive that certification.