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Vulnerability Response

Respond faster and more efficiently to vulnerabilities by bridging the gaps between security and IT teams.

Blueprint Overview

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Initiate & Plan

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Execute

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Deliver

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Go-Live & Beyond

Initiate & Plan

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Demo Vulnerability Response, collect requirements and deliver stories for acceptance.

6 HRS Product Owner
10 HRS Scrum Master
20 HRS Development Team
5 HRS Customer Stakeholders
5 HRS Acceptance Testers
Weekly hours by role

Execute

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Configure Vulnerability Response as per best practice and customer requirements; continually show progress back to the customer and collect new requirements.

4 HRS Product Owner
8 HRS Scrum Master
35 HRS Development Team
3 HRS Customer Stakeholders
2 HRS Acceptance Testers
Weekly hours by role

Deliver

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Provide functional and technical knowledge transfer and support customer acceptance testers.

12 HRS Product Owner
14 HRS Scrum Master
44 HRS Development Team
10 HRS Customer Stakeholders
16 HRS Acceptance Testers
Weekly hours by role

Go-Live & Beyond

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Promote code to production and provide Hyper-Care.

4 HRS Product Owner
8 HRS Scrum Master
20 HRS Development Team
3 HRS Customer Stakeholders
2 HRS Acceptance Testers
Weekly hours by role

Thirdera Staffing

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Engagement Manager

Responsible for providing leadership and direction to achieve growth and transformation.

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Technical Lead

Analyzes business requirements and provides system design while implementing system solutions.

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Supporting Team as appropriate

Skilled resources will be assigned as needed to ensure the implementation meets your project objectives in the 8-week delivery timeframe.

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Project Scope

Thirdera's Vulnerability Response Blueprint includes a robust list of deliverables to set your Security program on course for long-term success. Guided by proven best practices, our team of advisory and technical experts configures and implements a solution best fit for your unique needs while establishing a foundation of knowledge to promote ongoing maturation. Key deliverables include:

  • One pre-built or file-feed scanner integration
  • Assest/CI data matching from scanner to enrich the CMDB
  • Exception and Deferral Workflow
  • Automated risk score, severity, and remediation target calculations
  • Vulnerability grouping and auto-assignment
  • Notifications, reports, and dashboards
  • Automate creation of change requests from remediation targets
  • Configuration of Vulnerability Response Workspaces
  • Watch Topic creation
  • Functional Overview, Technical Knowledge Transfer, UAT Support

Outcomes

 

Consolidated View

A single view using Vulnerability Workspaces to assess overall health including Watch Topics for targeted visualizations and trending
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Elevated Operational Efficiency

Improved efficiency through cross-source prioritization, logical grouping, and automated assignment
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Seamless Workflows

Increased consistency and simplicity with deferral workflows and automated remediation targets
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Automated Feedback Loop

Faster feedback with automated rescan on vulnerability closure
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Improved Data Quality

Enriched vulnerability information with your ServiceNow CMDB (and vice-versa)
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Reduced Time to Resolution

Targeted Remediation Efforts to assign to IT teams to address vulnerabilities

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