Intelligence for Patch Management

Better intelligence and advanced warning help prioritize remediation efforts to manage finite resources and reduce the potential for harm to your organization.

Problem: Too Many Patches

Keeping patches current is both a business imperative and a compliance issue, but managing the process requires an intelligent approach to scheduling, tracking, and verification. A patch to a critical IT asset when a threat is developing requires emergency response to defend against attack. Other patches may be handled during regularly scheduled maintenance.

Solution: Patch Prioritization

With finite resources and more organized attackers, patch management of critical IT assets requires security intelligence—knowing which vulnerabilities pose the greatest risk to critical infrastructures. Prioritization starts with an analysis of external factors such as aggregated vulnerability and exploit intelligence, malicious code developments, emerging threat trends, and the experience of the actors involved. Further prioritization leverages internal company priorities to determine which vulnerable assets are most at risk based on their business function and location on the network.

How VeriSign Helps

VeriSign® iDefense® Security Intelligence Services deliver timely, proactive intelligence using our proven methodology for discovery and analysis. Our vulnerability teams filter data from mailing lists, Web sites, and proprietary sources into consolidated views of new publicly disclosed vulnerabilities related to more than 10,000 products.

Our cutting-edge research and development teams conduct detailed analysis of vulnerabilities, exploit code and malicious code to find out how they work and who created them. Our labs create workarounds for discovered vulnerabilities before they become public. VeriSign delivers advanced warning and analysis to help organizations protect their critical infrastructure.