Wazuh for Proactive Vulnerability Management
Summary: This article describes how vulnerability management has moved from periodic scanning and CVSS-based patch deadlines toward continuous visibility, exploit-aware prioritization, and detection of exploitation attempts, because threat actors now exploit flaws within days or hours of disclosure. It presents the open source Wazuh platform as supporting that model through its Syscollector and Vulnerability Detector modules, a CTI vulnerability database that groups flaws by OS, product, severity and publication date, rule-based detection of exploitation activity, remediation tracking, and weekly vulnerability advisories.
What you should know: The article states that exploitation now begins almost immediately after a vulnerability is published, which removes the weeks or months that monthly or quarterly scan cycles were built around. Automated scanning tools and exploit kits also let less-skilled attackers act on newly disclosed weaknesses, so the volume of opportunistic attacks rises alongside the speed.
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