The number of published vulnerabilities continues to increase year after year. Operations teams are challenged to keep up with this flood of vulnerabilities while also maintaining operations and business availability of systems. This session will present the vulnerability management approach for the DIR Data Center Services (DCS) program that protects systems through identification, assessment, and prioritization of vulnerability response while providing full transparency to agency stakeholders.

Session Objectives: Gain an understanding of the complex nature of vulnerability management Benefits of hosting within the DCS program for public and private cloud services with included vulnerability management, effective information sources, automation, and methodology to manage vulnerabilities.