Vulnerability Response Management (VRM)

overview the swimlane vulnerability response management (vrm) solution simplifies and unifies vulnerability management workflows across multiple tools and platforms by integrating with existing vulnerability scanners and it systems, swimlane vrm offers a centralized and automated approach to identifying, prioritizing, and mitigating vulnerabilities key components swimlane intelligence the swimlane intelligence service enriches vulnerability findings by integrating intelligence sources, such as vulnerability metadata and exploit information, to enhance decision making and prioritization ingestion and enrichment pipelines this component is responsible for processing incoming vulnerability data key features include deduplication of findings normalization of data formats application of enrichment metadata dynamic asset identification grouping of findings exception management vulnerability findings this is the core dataset representing vulnerabilities identified across assets key attributes include combined findings one vulnerability finding per cve per identified asset findings can be combined across scans and even across different vulnerability scanner sources turbine risk score this score provides a customizable, extendable, single point scoring system to help prioritize the remediation of vulnerability findings by default, it combines elements from the identified asset, nvd (cvss), cisa kev, and swimlane intelligence vulnerability assets assets represent the infrastructure, systems, or applications associated with vulnerabilities key functionalities include linking findings to affected assets viewing and managing asset specific risk data granular control over asset and zone criticality asset level control over sla targets by risk criticality integration with cmdb (configuration management database) for importing asset data via api endpoint or file upload vulnerability exception provides workflows to handle exceptions when vulnerabilities are deemed acceptable under specific conditions exception tracking ensures transparency and accountability in decision making exceptions can also be linked to specific findings or assets for better management vulnerability case management this module enables centralized management of vulnerabilities by creating cases that group related findings key features include automated and manual case creation case assignment, prioritization, and tracking integrated management using the vulnerability finding management widget vulnerability remediation items represents the actions and tasks required to remediate vulnerabilities these items are automatically or manually created tracked through integration with itsm systems updated to reflect progress and resolution status