John Thounhurst

Organizations frequently struggle to maintain comprehensive visibility into database attack surfaces. The complex interplay between database vulnerabilities, supply chain risks, and configuration compliance often keep the IT operations team competing against priorities of the database administrators. By creating a comprehensive view of the threat landscape of databases and their related applications, Tenable Vulnerability Management (TVM) is able to provide executive-level metrics demonstrating program effectiveness and identifying resource allocation priorities, along with actionable tasks for database-related findings. This report provides a consolidated view of database security intelligence in three areas: database specific vulnerabilities, database supply chains specialized, and configuration audit for databases.

A benefit of an effective database security program is that organizations are better positioned to safeguard against the risks of compromise, and to thwart attacks such as malware and ransomware. Steps to building such a program include following best practices and regulatory requirements. Key initiatives include conducting and reviewing vulnerability assessments and compliance audits. The report is tailored to guide the database team in detecting, predicting, and acting to reduce risk across their entire attack surface.

The risk manager and security operations team need full visibility of all vulnerabilities within the organization. By leveraging the continuous asset scanning and automated risk prioritization capabilities of Tenable Security Center (formerly Tenable.sc), the security operations team is able to discover operating system and application instances, software vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and other exposure details. This report provides a high-level summary of asset counts per operating system and discovered applications, with the added benefit of helpful queries to identify troublesome areas in scan fidelity.

A benefit of an effective database security program is that organizations are better positioned to safeguard against the risks of compromise, and to thwart attacks such as malware and ransomware. Organizations are obligated to protect sensitive data, and many times comply with laws and regulations regarding the data being stored. This dashboard is tailored to guide the database team in detecting, predicting, and acting to reduce risk across their entire attack surface.

Security practitioners need full visibility of all vulnerabilities within the organization. By leveraging the continuous asset scanning and automated risk prioritization capabilities of Tenable Vulnerability Management (TVM), the practitioner is able to discover operating system and application instances, software vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and other exposure details. This report provides a high-level summary of asset counts per operating system and discovered applications, with the added benefit of helpful queries to identify troublesome areas in scan fidelity.