How IT teams can conduct a vulnerability assessment for third-party applications

Google Chrome, Adobe Acrobat Reader, TeamViewer, you name it—there’s no shortage of third-party apps that IT teams need to constantly check for vulnerabilities. But to get a better picture of the problem, let’s bust out some napkin math.  

The average company uses about 200 applications overall. Assuming at least 75% of these have a vulnerability at any given time, small security teams are tasked with finding and prioritizing over 150 vulnerabilities on a rolling basis.  

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