To assess infections from WannaCry ransomware and threat exposure from the Shadow Brokers vulnerabilities across an entire IT environment, it’s helpful to visualize your exposure via dynamic dashboards.

Using Qualys AssetView and ThreatPROTECT, I created a single-pane incident response dashboard containing six key data points that provide a complete picture to assess both infection of WannaCry and threat exposure from the Shadow Brokers vulnerabilities. With the data from this dashboard, you can take immediate action against WannaCry. Each dashboard element automatically collects trend data that allows customers to track their remediation efforts over time.

See Visualizing WannaCry and Shadow Brokers: How to Configure Dashboards in AssetView for the details of the dashboard, including how to create dashboards in Qualys AssetView and specifically how I built the dashboard for WannaCry and Shadow Brokers.

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