Another Perspective:
Outside-In Instead of Inside-Out
With open source vulnerability management, you are looking at your IT infrastructure from the outside – just like a potential attacker would. The aim is to locate any vulnerability that might exist in your IT infrastructure.
Stay One Step Ahead of Attackers
IT security is a process – Open Source vulnerability management provides the foundation. Once you know where the chinks are in your armor, you can do something about them.
The process – from recognition to remedy and monitoring – represents a continuous cycle. You’ll always be one step ahead of attackers.
Still another plus: with our IT security solutions you can focus your hot spots, thus increasing the efficiency of antivirus systems, firewalls & Co.
Recognize and Manage Risks
Any IT system is at risk of attack by skilled hackers.
Typical causes of vulnerability are improper configuration or programming errors, unauthorized installations or violations of security measures. Our ERT Cyber Enterprise Appliance uncovers these and countless other risks – and helps you set priorities.
Targeted Approach with Open Source Vulnerability Management
Your ERT Cyber solution will test your IT network and any devices connected to it for more than 100,000 vulnerabilities – automatically. You will receive a daily security status update. The vulnerability check also gives you information on the severity of the problem so that you can set priorities.
Security Is a Process
Remedies are part of vulnerability management. Recognition must thus lead to a process that will eliminate detected weaknesses. Any vulnerability management process should answer three questions:
- Who gets which information about vulnerabilities and when?
- Who is responsible for what?
- What remedies are available?
Setting Priorities
Vulnerability in an on-line Web server is riskier than in an off-line system with telephone access.
Damage to machinery used in manufacturing is usually a lot more expensive to repair than damage to a Web server used for image films.
That’s why setting priorities is so important.
A Patch? Important, But no Substitute for Vulnerability Management
Even carefully patched systems require careful vulnerability management. Why?
- System interdependency frequently makes patching impossible. Possible reasons: Special enterprise-critical applications may lose certification or they may malfunction.
- Not every type of vulnerability can be patched.
- Improper configuration can cause vulnerability, even with up-to-date software. Some classic examples are an administrator password like “12345678” or file system shares that are exposed to the Internet by mistake.
Vulnerability Management and ERT Cyber – the Perfect Combination
The ERT Cyber Enterprise Feed tests IT networks as well as any connected devices for more than 100,000 different types of vulnerabilities – automatically. You’ll get a daily status of your threat level.
Full Transparency – Made in Germany
What sets us apart from other providers?
The complete scan engine and all test routines are available with source code as open source – and can therefore be audited completely.
We are proud of what we accomplish.
When can we convince you?
Frequently Asked Questions About Vulnerability Management
What does vulnerability management mean?
Vulnerability management is an IT security process that aims to find vulnerabilities in the IT infrastructure, classify their severity and, in addition, provide a list of actions to be taken to address the vulnerabilities. The goal is to eliminate vulnerabilities so that they can no longer pose a risk.
What are the advantages of vulnerability management?
999 out of 1,000 vulnerabilities have been known for more than a year. With vulnerability management, these vulnerabilities can therefore be detected and eliminated before they are exploited by an attacker. This greatly reduces the attack surface of the IT infrastructure.
Vulnerability management systems are fully automated and, through features such as schedules and custom scan configurations, offer users the ability to create complete vulnerability management processes that constantly scan for vulnerabilities. The end result is that vulnerability management ensures more resilient systems in the long term.
What are the advantages of vulnerability management from ERT Cyber?
With solutions from ERT Cyber Networks, you receive a daily update of vulnerability tests. Since new vulnerabilities are found every day, it is important to continuously develop new tests. With the ERT Cyber Enterprise Feed as part of the ERT Cyber solutions, you are always up to date.
Another advantage is that with ERT Cyber solutions you directly receive a classification of vulnerabilities according to their severity as well as possible measures for remediation. This allows for prioritization and targeted remediation of the vulnerabilities.
In addition, when you choose ERT Cyber, you get technology from a trusted German manufacturer. All ERT Cyber solutions always comply 100 % with the specifications of the highest data protection standards such as the DSGVO.
How much time does vulnerability management take?
Vulnerability management is not a one-off operation, but an ongoing process that is firmly integrated into IT security. The steps from the detection to the elimination of vulnerabilities run continuously in a constant cycle.
The duration of a scan always depends on the number of systems to be scanned or IP addresses to be scanned. Vulnerability management makes sense for any size of system, but can run for several hours as a background activity depending on the complexity of the respective scan.
What are the costs of vulnerability management from ERT Cyber?
The price of our solution is always based on the environment to be scanned. Depending on whether you are interested in a virtual appliance, a physical appliance or our cloud solution, our solutions cost between a few euros per month to several hundred thousand euros.
For which companies is vulnerability management suitable?
Every company derives significant benefits from the use of vulnerability management, as proactive security can be achieved.
ERT Cyber Networks’ vulnerability management solutions are suitable for businesses and government agencies of all sizes. Solutions are available for both micro-enterprises, where only a few IP addresses need to be scanned, and large enterprises with many branch offices.