Your organization utilizes a proprietary system for its critical operations. During a routine vulnerability scan, you discover that this system has several security weaknesses. However, any changes to the system require a development cycle from the vendor. What kind of inhibitors to remediation should you include in your vulnerability management report to accurately communicate the challenges to stakeholders?
Legacy systems often represent a risk, but proprietary systems do not need to be included in vulnerability reports.
Affected hosts can be remediated by the application of immediate compensating controls without contacting the vendor.
Proprietary systems may have vendor-specific development cycles that delay immediate remediation.
Since it's proprietary technology, no vulnerabilities should be reported until the vendor confirms them.
When reporting vulnerabilities for proprietary systems, it is essential to include in the report that proprietary systems often pose inhibitors to remediation due to their nature. Any modifications needed to address security weaknesses would generally require coordination with the system's vendor and could lead to degrading functionality or delays as the vendor has to develop and deploy the appropriate patches or updates within their development cycle. It's often not possible to apply immediate fixes or follow standard patching processes as with open systems.
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