Cybersecurity
Vulnerability Management
The ongoing process of identifying, assessing, prioritising, and remediating security weaknesses across systems and software.
Vulnerability management is a continuous cycle: discover weaknesses (through scanning, testing, and advisories), assess their severity and exploitability, prioritise based on risk, remediate or mitigate, and verify.
It is a foundational control under frameworks such as NIS2 and ISO 27001, and for space operators it extends across the ground segment and the supply chain, where a flaw in a third-party component can become a mission risk.