Automated vulnerability assessment with policy-based mitigation

1. A system for automatically assessing and mitigating vulnerabilities, comprising:

a computing device comprising a processor and a memory;

machine-readable instructions stored in the memory that, when executed by the processor, cause the computing device to at least:

aggregate a plurality of vulnerability records from a plurality of vulnerability feeds;

store the plurality of vulnerability records in the memory in a standardized format;

identify a client device susceptible to a vulnerability identified by at least one of the plurality of vulnerability records by querying a device record corresponding to the client device and determining that a current version of an application installed on the client device is a vulnerable version of the application based upon the at least one of the plurality of vulnerability records;

select a policy applicable for the at least one of the plurality of vulnerability records, wherein the policy specifies an action to be performed by the client device; and

place the policy in a command queue associated with the client device, wherein the policy can be retrieved by the client device from the command queue.

2. The system of claim 1 for automatically assessing and mitigating vulnerabilities, wherein the machine-readable instructions, when executed by the processor, further cause the computing device to at least:

generate a plurality of enterprise-specific severity scores by calculating an enterprise-specific severity score for each of the plurality of vulnerability records; and

create a web page that includes at least a subset of the plurality of enterprise-specific severity scores and respective ones of the plurality of vulnerability records.

3. The system of claim 2 for automatically assessing and mitigating vulnerabilities, wherein the action specified in the policy causes the client device to install an update to address the vulnerability.

4. The system of claim 2 for automatically assessing and mitigating vulnerabilities, wherein the action specified in the policy causes the client device to disable functionality related to the vulnerability.

5. The system of claim 2 for automatically assessing and mitigating vulnerabilities, wherein the action specified in the policy blocks the client device from access to a network resource until an update to address the vulnerability is installed.

6. The system of claim 1 for automatically assessing and mitigating vulnerabilities, wherein the machine-readable instructions that cause the computing device to aggregate the plurality of vulnerability records further cause the computing device to at least:

scrape one of the plurality of vulnerability records from a respective one of the plurality of vulnerability feeds; and

parse the scraped one of the plurality of vulnerability records for at least one of a vulnerability severity score, vulnerable application information, or vulnerable device information.

7. The system of claim 1 for automatically assessing and mitigating vulnerabilities, wherein calculating the enterprise-specific severity score for each of the plurality of vulnerability records further comprises causing the computing device to at least repeatedly:

determine a number of managed devices that are vulnerable to a vulnerability identified in one of the plurality of vulnerability records;

determine a vulnerability severity score for the vulnerability; and

multiply the number of managed devices that are vulnerable by the vulnerability severity score to calculate the enterprise-specific severity score.

8. A method for automatically assessing and mitigating vulnerabilities, comprising:

aggregating a plurality of vulnerability records from a plurality of vulnerability feeds;

storing the plurality of vulnerability records in a standardized format;

identifying a client device susceptible to a vulnerability identified by at least one of the plurality of vulnerability records by querying a device record corresponding to the client device and determining that a current version of an application installed on the client device is a vulnerable version of the application based upon the at least one of the plurality of vulnerability records;

selecting a policy applicable for the at least one of the plurality of vulnerability records; and

placing the policy in a command queue associated with the client device.

9. The method of claim 8 for automatically assessing and mitigating vulnerabilities, further comprising:

generating a plurality of enterprise-specific severity scores by calculating an enterprise-specific severity score for each of the plurality of vulnerability records; and

creating a web page that includes at least a subset of the plurality of enterprise-specific severity scores and respective ones of the plurality of vulnerability records.

10. The method of claim 9 for automatically assessing and mitigating vulnerabilities, wherein the action specified in the policy causes the client device to install an update to address the vulnerability.

11. The method of claim 9 for automatically assessing and mitigating vulnerabilities, wherein the action specified in the policy causes the client device to disable functionality related to the vulnerability.

12. The method of claim 9 for automatically assessing and mitigating vulnerabilities, wherein the action specified in the policy blocks the client device from access to a network resource until an update to address the vulnerability is installed.

13. The method of claim 8 for automatically assessing and mitigating vulnerabilities, wherein aggregating the plurality of vulnerability records further comprises:

scraping one of the plurality of vulnerability records from a respective one of the plurality of vulnerability feeds; and

parsing the scraped one of the plurality of vulnerability records for at least one of a vulnerability severity score, vulnerable application information, or vulnerable device information.

14. The method of claim 8 for automatically assessing and mitigating vulnerabilities, wherein calculating the enterprise-specific severity score for each of the plurality of vulnerability records further comprises:

determining a number of managed devices that are vulnerable to a vulnerability identified in one of the plurality of vulnerability records;

determining a vulnerability severity score for the vulnerability; and

multiplying the number of managed devices that are vulnerable by the vulnerability severity score to calculate the enterprise-specific severity score.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising machine-readable instructions for automatically assessing and mitigating vulnerabilities that, when executed by a processor, cause a computing device to at least:

aggregate a plurality of vulnerability records from a plurality of vulnerability feeds;

store the plurality of vulnerability records in the memory in a standardized format;

identify a client device susceptible to a vulnerability identified by at least one of the plurality of vulnerability records by querying a device record corresponding to the client device and determining that a current version of an application installed on the client device is a vulnerable version of the application based upon the at least one of the plurality of vulnerability records;

select a policy applicable for the at least one of the plurality of vulnerability records, wherein the policy specifies an action to be performed by the client device; and

place the policy in a command queue associated with the client device, wherein the policy can be retrieved by the client device from the command queue.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the machine-readable instructions for automatically assessing and mitigating vulnerabilities, when executed by the processor, further cause the computing device to at least:

generate a plurality of enterprise-specific severity scores by calculating an enterprise-specific severity score for each of the plurality of vulnerability records; and

create a web page that includes at least a subset of the plurality of enterprise-specific severity scores and respective ones of the plurality of vulnerability records.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the action specified in the policy causes the client device to install an update to address the vulnerability.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the action specified in the policy causes the client device to disable functionality related to the vulnerability.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the action specified in the policy blocks the client device from access to a network resource until an update to address the vulnerability is installed.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein calculating the enterprise-specific severity score for each of the plurality of vulnerability records further comprises causing the computing device to at least repeatedly:

determine a number of managed devices that are vulnerable to a vulnerability identified in one of the plurality of vulnerability records;

determine a vulnerability severity score for the vulnerability; and

multiply the number of managed devices that are vulnerable by the vulnerability severity score to calculate the enterprise-specific severity score.