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?
Affected hosts can be remediated by the application of immediate compensating controls without contacting the vendor.
Legacy systems often represent a risk, but proprietary systems do not need to be included in vulnerability reports.
Since it is proprietary technology, no vulnerabilities should be reported until the vendor confirms them.
Proprietary systems may have vendor-specific development cycles that delay immediate remediation.
Proprietary systems often act as inhibitors to remediation because the organization typically cannot modify the code directly. Fixes must go through the vendor's development cycle, which can delay patch deployment and even risk degrading functionality if not coordinated properly. These vendor-controlled timelines and potential functional impacts should be highlighted so stakeholders understand why remediation cannot occur immediately and why compensating controls may be necessary in the interim.
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