Vulnerability Program Scoring for Real-Time Readiness Assessment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing cybersecurity vulnerability management systems provide static and subjective assessments that fail to dynamically reflect the depth and breadth of an organization's vulnerability management capabilities, often becoming outdated quickly and lacking consistency across the organization.
Innovation Solution
A vulnerability management program evaluation system that defines capabilities, maturity tiers, and technologies supporting these capabilities, providing a dynamic and real-time assessment of vulnerability management readiness by scoring capabilities and technologies based on defined metrics and legends, allowing for ongoing recalculations of comprehensive scores.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If static and subjective assessments are used to evaluate vulnerability management capabilities, then the assessment process is simple and quick, but the assessment becomes outdated quickly and lacks reliability
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms static assessments into dynamic, continuously updated evaluations. The system automatically recalculates vulnerability management scores in real-time as new data becomes available, ensuring assessments remain current and reliable without requiring manual intervention. This dynamic approach directly addresses the contradiction by making the assessment system adaptive rather than fixed.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms where assessment results are continuously monitored and fed back into the evaluation system. This allows the system to self-correct and improve over time, with scores being recalculated based on new vulnerability data, remediation progress, and changing threat landscapes. The feedback loop ensures reliability while managing complexity through automated processes.
2Reliability
If manual and subjective vulnerability management assessments are performed, then the implementation is straightforward, but consistency across the organization is lacking
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual, human-performed assessments with an automated computer-based evaluation system. This substitution eliminates subjective human judgment and ensures consistent application of assessment criteria across the entire organization. The automated system applies the same metrics and calculation methods uniformly, directly addressing the consistency issue while increasing automation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent establishes specific, measurable parameters and metrics for evaluating vulnerability management capabilities. By defining concrete parameters such as vulnerability detection rates, remediation times, and coverage percentages, the system transforms subjective assessments into objective, quantifiable measurements. This parameter-based approach ensures consistency while enabling automated evaluation.
3Measurement precision
If comprehensive vulnerability management capabilities are measured in detail, then the measurement precision is high, but the complexity of the measurement system increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the comprehensive vulnerability management assessment into distinct, manageable capability areas such as vulnerability identification, risk assessment, remediation, and monitoring. Each capability is measured separately using specific metrics, allowing for precise measurement without overwhelming complexity. The segmented approach enables detailed evaluation while maintaining system manageability through modular structure.
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AI summary
Methods and systems described herein are directed to measuring cybersecurity vulnerability management programs and readiness. A vulnerability management program evaluation system can define vulnerability management capabilities and technologies supporting execution of those capabilities. Once defined, the system can conduct an initial assessment including scoring for the capabilities representing a depth of vulnerability management, as well as scoring for the technologies representing a breadth of vulnerability management. To update the initial assessment, the system can track the ongoing progress of projects that can affect the depth and/or breadth of vulnerability management, and then recalculate the scoring. At any time, the system can combine the depth and breadth to determine a comprehensive vulnerability management score.