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Threat and Vulnerability Management

What is Threat and Vulnerability Management?

An ongoing programme for identifying, evaluating, and addressing threats and vulnerabilities in an organisation's IT environment. Combines threat intelligence, vulnerability scanning, risk prioritisation, and remediation tracking.

Information Security

What the standards actually require on threat and vulnerability management

Requirements naming threat and vulnerability management across 2 standards, quoted from the control text.

Keep approved policies and procedures for identifying, reporting and prioritising vulnerability remediation so systems are not left open to exploitation, and review them at least annually.

CCM-TVM-01 · Threat and Vulnerability Management Policy and Procedures
PCI SSF1 control

The software vendor must establish a threat and vulnerability management process that identifies, assesses, prioritizes, and remediates threats and vulnerabilities across the software lifecycle.

SSS-6.1 · Threat and Vulnerability Management

Questions people ask about threat and vulnerability management

What is Threat and Vulnerability Management?
An ongoing programme for identifying, evaluating, and addressing threats and vulnerabilities in an organisation's IT environment. Combines threat intelligence, vulnerability scanning, risk prioritisation, and remediation tracking.
Why is Threat and Vulnerability Management important for compliance?
Threat and Vulnerability Management is a key concept in Information Security. Understanding threat and vulnerability management helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Threat and Vulnerability Management?
Threat and Vulnerability Management appears in the requirement text of Cloud Security Alliance Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM) v4.0.1, PCI SSF. Across these standards we have identified 2 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Threat and Vulnerability Management?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how threat and vulnerability management applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 686 frameworks.

See how Threat and Vulnerability Management applies across compliance frameworks

Our platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings. Explore how this concept is addressed across standards.

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