Identifies Your Risk Exposure
Vulnerability Advisor correlates known vulnerabilities and network access. It highlights the pathways and vulnerabilities that hackers could exploit to compromise your most critical assets. Using Vulnerability Advisor, you can proactively identify critical risk factors to protect your organization from costly breaches.
Correlates Network Access
with Vulnerabilities
Vulnerability Advisor picks up where vulnerability scanners leave off. While these scanners excel at finding vulnerabilities, they're not designed to determine which vulnerabilities pose the greatest risk — or don't represent a risk at all. Vulnerability Advisor correlates network access and vulnerabilities so you know exactly where your network is exposed to threat sources. It also identifies the pathways hackers could use to compromise your critical assets. And best of all, you can fully leverage your significant network security investment to determine which
vulnerabilities have been mitigated.
Provides Interactive Security Visualizations
Like Network Advisor, Vulnerability Advisor provides security visualizations that quickly identify and prioritize vulnerabilities, and clearly communicate their severity. Vulnerability Advisor's interactive Threat Map uses visualization techniques that enable you to quickly isolate paths that expose vulnerabilities to threat sources. Vulnerability Advisor also provides a Risk Map that leverages heat map visualizations to provide a holistic view of all systems. This allows you to quickly highlight network hot spots based on your most important criteria.
Tracks & Reports Vulnerability
Risk Metrics
Vulnerability Advisor automatically calculates the vulnerability metrics that matter to your business. Vulnerability Advisor provides significant insight
into the quality of your vulnerability management, how new vulnerabilities and IT changes impact your security posture and whether or not your efforts are reducing risk.
Assesses The Risk of Change Requests
Change requests often require network operators to unwittingly open new access points that can become holes in your network security infrastructure. Vulnerability Advisor helps the operations team to evaluate the security impact of a change request before implementation. It determines if the change will expose any network vulnerabilities as well as at-risk systems that could act as launching points for attacks deeper into the network.
Integrates With All Major VA Scanners
Vulnerability Advisor works with all of the major vulnerability assessment vendors. It can automatically collect vulnerability assessment data on a scheduled basis or you can import it from the client UI. And in the rare instance that you have a vulnerability assessment solution that isn't supported out of the box, you can leverage the REST API to load host, application and vulnerability data into Vulnerability Advisor.
Measures Risk To Your Business
Lots of vendors like to claim that they measure "risk", but
only Vulnerability Advisor provides the missing ingredient –
the network context needed to understand the likelihood of a vulnerability being compromised. It's also required to determine the impact of an exploited vulnerability. By understanding network context, Vulnerability Advisor automatically calculates risk scores for each host in your enterprise. Based on the NIST 800-30 Risk Management standard, Vulnerability Advisor combines threat and vulnerability identification with control analysis and impact analysis (network context and business value) to calculate the risk facing each host.
Validates Scan Coverage
Given the size and complexity of networks, identifying network segments that require vulnerability scanning is
a daunting challenge. Vulnerability Advisor automatically assures that your scan coverage is comprehensive enough to find high-risk vulnerabilities. Vulnerability Advisor pinpoints areas of your network
that are exposed to untrusted networks but that have not been scanned. Vulnerability Advisor
also prioritizes those unscanned areas that could be exploited to launch attacks deeper into
your infrastructure.