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Overview

BigFix Insights for Vulnerability Remediation for Rapid7 dramatically shrinks the gap between security and operations organizations – automatically providing the most appropriate BigFix Fixlet for remediation from vulnerabilities detected by Rapid7. It is included with BigFix Workspace, BigFix Lifecycle, BigFix Compliance and BigFix Remediate.
 

Vulnerability Remediation Integration with Qualys

The overall correlation process to fix vulnerabilities can take many hours – but with BigFix Insights for Vulnerability Remediation for Rapid7, that time is reduced to mere minutes. It automatically recommends the most appropriate patch and configuration settings for thousands of vulnerabilities, resulting in reduced time to remediation, decreased gaps in compliance and minimized attack surface.

 

Architecture Overview
The figure below shows an architecture overview of BigFix Insights for Vulnerability Remediation for Rapid7:

 

Highlights

  • IT security and operations teams can quickly reconcile vulnerability detections with remediation actions, collapsing compliance and security gaps.

  • Remediate detected vulnerabilities, then automate the creation of prioritized remediation workflows with BigFix Baselines and Fixlets using BigFix supersedence engine.

  • Reduce the need for specialized expertise by embedding advanced patch analytics, saving time while reducing costs and errors.

  • Leverage the broadest set of remediation capabilities with respect to supported OS platforms as well as out-of-the-box, certified remediations.

Benefits

  • Align security and IT operations, improving awareness of what remediations are needed to address detected vulnerabilities.

  • Rapidly close vulnerability gaps, reducing remediation time from hours or days to minutes.

  • Shrink attack surfaces and close the loop between vulnerability detection and remediation.

  • Increase BigFix's return on investment (ROI) for both security and operations teams.

 

 

BigFix Component Requirements:

  • BigFix Insights
  • BigFix Platform 10.0.8 or later

BigFix License Requirements:

  • BigFix Workspace, BigFix Lifecycle, BigFix Compliance, or BigFix Remediate

Supported Vulnerability Management Platforms:

  • Rapid7 Insight VM

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