From the course: Implementing a Vulnerability Management Lifecycle

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Succeed by setting program goals

Succeed by setting program goals

From the course: Implementing a Vulnerability Management Lifecycle

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Succeed by setting program goals

- [Narrator] You may be tempted to try and find and manage all your vulnerabilities at once. But please, don't give in to this feeling. For the greatest chance of success, start by setting modest goals that will help you build a small, but energetic, vulnerability management program. Then, improve your program over time through iteration. After you've shown some initial success, set progressively bigger goals over time and watch your impact grow. Here are some suggestions about initial goals to get you started. You should begin by listing which systems are the most crucial to generating revenue for you company, like an enterprise resource planning system or an electronic medical records management system. Be sure to write down all the individual computers and web services that make up your larger system. Or, you could take a different approach by starting with the systems that store the most sensitive data, regardless…

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