The importance of your CMDB for Vulnerability Response.

[Eric Feron]

The success of your Vulnerability Response implementation relies heavily on your Configuration Management Database (CMDB). Learn why and how to get properly set-up in 10 minutes.

In this first episode of the 2020 series on Vulnerability Response (VR), Rahimulah Rahimi, Technical Portfolio Manager, lays the ground work for all you need to know to be successful with VR.

Making sure the CMDB is VR-ready is a critical pre-requisite to get great value, quickly. Getting this step wrong would enable a set of unnecessary challenges to appear later.

This video is well worth your time.

Video contents:

00:01 Introductions.

01:17 The Maturity model.

01:44 The 2020 Vulnerability Response (VR) tutorials.

02:08 The new community for VR users.

02:20 VR at high level. Scanners and remediation.

03:00 The Configuration Management Database (CMDB) in a few words. Configuration Items, CI Classes and tables.

03:30 Combine Scanners + VR + CMDB for high impact and efficiencies.

04:17 When all is in place: the "happy path".

04:44 Important details to note: Unmatched CIs Class, new columns in the CI Table, validate with your platform team before go-live.

05:18 Great VR is about cross-functional leadership.

05:30 What your CMDB team needs from you and what you need from them.

06:17 Most common challenges observed: Mis-routed assignments, No matching CI, an unprepared CMDB team.

07:30 Beyond the CMDB, other critical pieces: CI Matching, Vulnerabilities, Scanners, etc... More VR tutorials coming.

08:13 What to do right now: Engage with your Partner and your CMDB team, review the tutorials, engage in the VR forums, sign-up for the classroom trainings.

09:05 Take-aways: build your VR strategy, share and review it with the CMDB team.

Thank you.

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