CDW Services / Risk Advisory / Vulnerability Management
VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT SERVICES
Detect, Prioritize and Remediate Vulnerabilities in Your Business
An optimized vulnerability management program, designed and supported by security experts, enables organizations to eliminate backlog, address threats quickly and efficiently, and protect from attacks.
Vulnerability Management Services Overview
CDW’s Managed Service provides continual visibility and meaningful security insight into client environments and the risk associated with vulnerabilities. This empowers the customer to manage their attack surface by identifying vulnerabilities as well as prioritizing and validating their remediation. CDW’s reporting provides detailed information about the organization’s current exposure with relevant information tailored for both security operators and leaders. Our collaborative approach enables a virtuous cycle of continuous improvement in reporting and data modelling to ensure that our clients have the information they need to drive decision-making to protect critical assets.
CDW’s Professional Service helps clients evaluate their current vulnerability management program and tools, identify opportunities for improvement, develop strong processes and policies to seamlessly manage their program.
Features
CDW’s Vulnerability Management Services
Managed Service
An optimized vulnerability management program, designed and supported by security experts, enables organizations to eliminate backlog, address threats quickly and efficiently, and protect from attacks. Our service provides the following:
Continual scanning of your internal, external and web application environments
Rapid identification of vulnerabilities in critical business assets
Advanced trend and analysis reporting of your vulnerabilities
Recommendations for patch prioritization based on cyber risk
Validation that patches were successfully deployed
Service from highly skilled and experienced staff on our cybersecurity team
Optional PCI compliance attestation support
Professional Service
Our vulnerability management team performs many security services, including tool configuration and integration, development and deployment, refining scanning processes, improving reporting, remediation recommendations, compliance benchmarking and tool management
Our Approach
Our Vulnerability
Management Lifecycle
Our collaborative approach enables a virtuous cycle of continuous improvement in reporting and data modelling to ensure that the client and system administrators have the data they need to drive decision making.
Identify Vulnerabilities, Remediations and Threats
Performed by the vulnerability information analyst.
Prioritize Vulnerabilities
Performed by the vulnerability information analyst and subject matter experts.
Test Remediations
Performed by the system administrator.
Implement Remediations
Performed by the system administrator.
Validate Remediations
Performed by the vulnerability information analyst.
Continuous Improvement
Performed by the technical vulnerability management group.
Why Vulnerability
Management Matters
The first video in a four-part series on vulnerability management focuses on the fundamentals of vulnerability management and addresses some of the questions that stakeholders, partners, customers and senior leadership will ask around security posture and vulnerability management.
Video | 39 min
How Vulnerability Management Informs and Enriches Your Threat Models
Learn how to align vulnerability management with business risk, elevate that conversation to your business leaders, describe ongoing risks that your team are facing and how they play into larger business conversations.
Video | 39 min
Contextualizing Your Security Program with Vulnerability Management
Learn about the intelligence lifecycle and how you can apply it, how to reduce time to action, validate the effectiveness of your controls, identify misconfigurations, test and verify critical changes to your environment.
Video | 35 min
How to Build Your Vulnerability Management Program
Learn how to align vulnerability management with business risk, elevate that conversation to your business leaders, describe ongoing risks that your team are facing and how they play into larger business conversations.
Video | 61 min
Our Security Process
Prepare. Defend. Respond.
Prepare
We help our clients create and align strategies and programs to address ever-evolving business risks. This includes creating a relevant and achievable security roadmap.
Defend
We work collaboratively with clients to decide which technologies to implement to protect against cyberthreats.
Respond
We monitor critical business assets, respond rapidly to incidents and validate the effectiveness of security controls 24/7/365, so you don’t have to.
