How can we connect the dots between all the vulnerability tools and standards to reduce our risk? There are now a number of tools, standards, and compliance that affect vulnerability management in the cloud. Let's identify how everything is related and how technologies such as vulnerability scanners build on top of SBOM and GSD to meet compliance standards.
We now have tools that didn’t exist in the past to help on the vulnerability journey. We are seeing vulnerability guidance as compliance standards, executive orders, frameworks, and more. We also have a lot of new tools and projects to help meet this guidance. Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), Global Security Database (GSD), vulnerability scanners, and open source security metrics.
Vulnerabilities are everywhere, especially in open source, there’s no escaping them. Just as open source empowered the cloud, it created a new vulnerability management problem space. Regulation and compliance are pointing at needing to treat vulnerabilities as a part of our risk management programs instead of something we mostly ignore. Just like risk, we will never have zero vulnerabilities, so how can we gain some understanding and control over our vulnerabilities? Vulnerability risk management isn’t a destination, it’s a journey.