Vulnerability Management (VM) is the ongoing process of discovering, prioritizing, and remediating security weaknesses before attackers exploit them. If you’re asking what is Vulnerability Management, it’s a repeatable cycle that turns scans into fixes—so risk actually goes down, not just gets reported.
We often see teams struggle not with finding issues, but with which to fix first. Modern VM programs combine asset context (who owns it, where it runs), vulnerability severity (e.g., CVSS), exploitability intel, and business impact to drive risk-based decisions and SLAs.
Core steps typically include:
- Inventory & exposure mapping: Know every asset—on-prem, cloud, SaaS, and remote.
- Assessment: Continuous scanning and configuration checks (including containers/IaC).
- Prioritization: Rank by severity, exploit activity, and business criticality.
- Remediation & mitigation: Patch, reconfigure, or apply compensating controls.
- Validation & reporting: Re-scan, verify closure, and track MTTR and risk trendlines.
Our take? VM only works when it’s operationalized—clear ownership, tight workflows with IT/DevOps, and metrics that prove reduction in real attack paths, not just ticket volume.
If you’re building a risk-based program that developers and ops can actually run, our Vulnerability Management Guide walks through asset discovery, prioritization models, SLAs, and workflows that turn findings into fast, measurable fixes.
