Staying ahead of potential threats is a ceaseless challenge. Cyber threats evolve and spread quickly and your time and resources are limited. Today’s solution largely depends on vulnerability scanners and EDR tools. While these tools are essential for finding the threats in your house, they lack context, meaning cybersecurity teams have to wade through thousands of alerts indiscriminately to stay secure. As a result, the few relevant threats actually targeting your organization can infiltrate your company's defenses undetected. Let’s break down the problem with today’s vulnerability management and how we can fix it.
Vulnerability management today
Your vulnerability management process likely involves the following:
- Continuous monitoring
- Prioritization and risk assessment
- Patch management
- Collaboration with threat intelligence
- Compliance requirements
- Incident response planning + user education
Learn more about what cybersecurity vulnerability management is.
The problem with today’s vulnerability management system
These techniques are critical for vulnerability management but the tools that companies depend on today are not built to do all of the above. Here are some of the major problems:
| The tactic | The tool | The problem |
| 1. Continuous monitoring | Vulnerability scanners | Vulnerability scanners typically use signatures to identify known issues rather than previously unknown issues. This leaves a stall period between when a vulnerability is newly discovered and before a CVE has been assigned or detection signatures are available. |
| 2. Prioritization and risk assessment | Manual | Vulnerability scanners and EDR tools alert you indiscriminately, leaving manual research for you to prioritize your threats in a timely manner. |
| 3. Patch management | Manual | Vulnerability scanners and EDR tools alert you, but don’t give you advice on how to best temporarily mitigate an issue if patching isn't immediately possible. |
| 4. Collaboration with threat intelligence | Manual or expensive threat intel platform | You have to make sense of and understand the complex threat landscape as it evolves and what threats are active and exploited. Then do the correlation work manually to see how it relates to you. |
| 5. Compliance requirements | Manual | You have to perform regular assessments and generate reporting to meet your compliance standards. |
| 6. Incident response planning + user training | Manual | You have to create, update, and maintain incident response plans and user training to communicate and defend against evolving cybersecurity threats. |
As the primary solution, vulnerability scanners and EDR tools fall short as they only discover and quarantine threats in your house. Above all else, they lack the context for you to know where to focus your efforts. You end up spending your time going through endless alerts. Not to mention all of the other manual work that goes into monitoring and resolving cybersecurity vulnerabilities. In this sense, vulnerability scanners and EDR tools are more of a line two defense.
The modern vulnerability management system
To improve today’s vulnerability management system, you need solutions that are built to cut out the manual work. You need your countless vulnerability scanners and malware alerts streamlined and prioritized to the few that matter to you daily.
Fletch is a solution that solves your vulnerability management problem on two fronts.
The first is with reliable and proactive threat intelligence so you can discover your threats early. Fletch’s AI engine indexes the entire threat landscape and cybersecurity community. Then it takes the information and correlates it with your data so you know of threats and cybersecurity vulnerabilities targeting you before they’re in your house. All of this is done continuously for you in Fletch.
The second is by giving you the context for every threat. From thousands to dozens prioritized, Fletch saves your time for only the most critical cybersecurity vulnerability and EDR alerts. Then automates the data plumbing work for you to tell you any resources that may be impacted by a given threat. And the information you need to fix it.
Takeaway
EDR and malware tools are a little dated. They’re built for the cybersecurity team who have the resources to spare to triage threats in real-time. They solve the problem of identifying what comes through the door. However, for most companies with limited resources, they can’t move fast enough to defend against everything already in their house, at scale.
That’s where Fletch comes in. Fletch knows the threat landscape and uses a sophisticated AI engine to surface threats earlier than other sources. When Fletch is coupled with your security tools, you’ll prioritize your day and know where to focus your time. And it’s just one data set Fletch tracks.
Fletch integrates with Crowdstrike, Sentinel 1, Microsoft Defender, Qualys, or Rapid 7. Join the waitlist here.
