IT Security Coordinator at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
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2022-01-11T14:45:10Z
Jan 11, 2022
Mitigation is taking your car in for an oil change and tune up.
Remediation is them finding you have a blown gasket seal and replacing the parts and greasing the engine to make your engine doesn't blow. AKA security vulnerability management.
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Lead Consultant, Owner and Founder at a tech consulting company with self employed
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2022-01-12T14:55:27Z
Jan 12, 2022
Mitigation is pre-emptive. Remediation is reactive. Others have provided excellent examples.
Mitigation is the implementation of RAID storage.
Remediation is the recovery of a failed disk.
Both may be needed over the lifecycle, but the level of effort for remediation is much higher and the quality of recovery is significantly lower without mitigation - net the cost of doing business is higher without mitigation.
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Mitigation is taking your car in for an oil change and tune up.
Remediation is them finding you have a blown gasket seal and replacing the parts and greasing the engine to make your engine doesn't blow. AKA security vulnerability management.
Mitigation: the act of reducing how harmful, unpleasant or bad something is.
Remediation: the process of improving or correcting a situation.
Please, see this material from CERT and check phases and differences.
https://github.com/certsociete...
Mitigation is pre-emptive. Remediation is reactive. Others have provided excellent examples.
Mitigation is the implementation of RAID storage.
Remediation is the recovery of a failed disk.
Both may be needed over the lifecycle, but the level of effort for remediation is much higher and the quality of recovery is significantly lower without mitigation - net the cost of doing business is higher without mitigation.
Let's say in an IT environment:
"Mitigation" moves your virtual machines or containers to another Virtualization server to keep production while you find and solve the problem.
"Remediation" is, in fact, finding the problem, solving it, taking notes and preventing it from happening again.
Those are just examples.
Mitigation is changing the flat tire. Remediation is getting the nails off the road.