Vulnerability Management
Proactive vulnerability assessment and management to strengthen your security posture.
Every unpatched vulnerability is an open invitation. Close them before attackers accept it.
Enterprise attack surfaces have never been larger or more complex. Thousands of assets — cloud workloads, containers, APIs, on-premises servers, endpoints, and third-party software — each carrying vulnerabilities that threat actors actively scan for and exploit within hours of public disclosure. CVE volumes exceeded 28,000 in 2023 alone. No internal team can manually triage, prioritise, and remediate at that scale without a structured, intelligence-driven programme.
Vimix's Vulnerability Management practice delivers continuous, risk-based vulnerability management across your entire attack surface — replacing point-in-time scanning with always-on visibility, replacing CVSS-score-only prioritisation with business-context-aware risk scoring, and replacing remediation backlogs with structured, SLA-driven workflows that hold asset owners accountable. We help CISOs at global enterprises move from vulnerability awareness to measurable, demonstrable risk reduction.
Our Research
CVEs published in 2023 — a volume no enterprise team can manually triage, prioritise, and remediate without a structured, intelligence-driven programme in place.
Of published CVEs are ever exploited in the wild — yet most organisations treat all vulnerabilities equally, wasting remediation capacity on theoretical risks while real threats go unaddressed.
Average time from CVE publication to active exploitation for vulnerabilities that do get weaponised — organisations without continuous scanning and risk-based prioritisation routinely miss this window.
Our Services
We deliver a fully managed, intelligence-led vulnerability management programme — from asset discovery and continuous scanning through risk-based prioritisation, remediation governance, and board-level reporting.
Continuous Asset Discovery & Attack Surface Management
You cannot manage vulnerabilities in assets you do not know exist. We deploy continuous asset discovery across your on-premises, cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), container, and SaaS estate using Tenable.io, Qualys VMDR, Rapid7 InsightVM, and CrowdStrike Falcon Surface — maintaining a living, authoritative asset inventory that updates in real time as your environment changes. Shadow IT, unmanaged cloud instances, and forgotten legacy systems are surfaced automatically, eliminating the blind spots that attackers exploit.
Risk-Based Vulnerability Prioritisation
CVSS scores alone are a poor guide to remediation priority — a CVSS 9.8 vulnerability on an isolated test system is less urgent than a CVSS 6.5 vulnerability on an internet-facing application processing customer payment data. We apply risk-based prioritisation using Tenable's Vulnerability Priority Rating (VPR), Qualys TruRisk, and Kenna Security's risk scoring — incorporating asset criticality, exploitability in the wild (EPSS scores), active exploit availability, threat actor targeting intelligence, and business context to produce a prioritised remediation queue that your teams can act on with confidence.
Remediation Governance & SLA Management
Identifying vulnerabilities without a structured remediation process creates a growing backlog that erodes security posture over time. We implement remediation governance frameworks with defined SLAs by severity and asset criticality, automated ticketing integration (ServiceNow, Jira, BMC Remedy), asset owner assignment workflows, exception management processes, and escalation paths for overdue remediation. Every vulnerability has an owner, a deadline, and a tracked status — eliminating the ambiguity that allows critical findings to age without action.
Cloud & Container Vulnerability Management
Cloud-native environments require purpose-built vulnerability management. We deploy agentless cloud scanning for AWS EC2, Azure VMs, and GCP compute; container image scanning integrated into your CI/CD pipeline (Snyk, Trivy, Prisma Cloud, Wiz); Kubernetes workload assessment; and infrastructure-as-code security scanning (Checkov, tfsec) to catch misconfigurations and vulnerabilities before they reach production. Shift-left security means vulnerabilities are identified at build time — not after deployment.
Penetration Testing & Validation
Automated scanning identifies known vulnerabilities — penetration testing validates whether they are actually exploitable in your specific environment and configuration. We conduct internal and external network penetration tests, web application and API security assessments (OWASP Top 10, OWASP API Security Top 10), cloud configuration reviews, and red team exercises — providing the adversarial validation that confirms your vulnerability management programme is closing real attack paths, not just generating reports.
Executive Reporting & Board-Level Metrics
CISOs at enterprise organisations need vulnerability data translated into business risk language that boards, audit committees, and regulators can understand. We deliver executive dashboards showing risk reduction trends, SLA compliance rates, mean time to remediate (MTTR) by severity, attack surface exposure scores, and benchmark comparisons against industry peers. Our reporting is designed to demonstrate measurable security improvement over time — giving you the evidence base to justify investment and demonstrate programme effectiveness.
Our Approach
Our vulnerability management engagements follow a continuous improvement cycle — moving from reactive, point-in-time scanning to a mature, intelligence-driven programme that measurably reduces your organisation's exploitable attack surface over time.
Discover & Inventory
Comprehensive asset discovery across on-premises, cloud, container, and SaaS environments. We establish an authoritative, continuously updated asset inventory as the foundation of every downstream vulnerability management activity.
Scan & Assess
Continuous authenticated scanning using Tenable.io, Qualys VMDR, or Rapid7 InsightVM — covering infrastructure, applications, APIs, containers, and cloud workloads with scan frequency calibrated to asset criticality and change velocity.
Prioritise
Risk-based prioritisation incorporating CVSS, EPSS exploit prediction scores, active exploitation intelligence, asset criticality, and business context — producing a focused remediation queue that directs effort where it reduces the most risk.
Remediate & Govern
Structured remediation governance: SLA assignment, automated ticketing, asset owner workflows, exception management, and escalation paths — ensuring every finding has an owner, a deadline, and a tracked resolution.
Validate & Report
Post-remediation validation scanning, penetration test validation of critical findings, and executive reporting that translates vulnerability data into board-ready risk reduction metrics and programme performance dashboards.
What we cover
Comprehensive
Security Capabilities
Enterprise-grade vulnerability management across every layer of your attack surface.
Continuous Attack Surface Visibility
Always-on asset discovery and vulnerability scanning across on-premises infrastructure, cloud workloads (AWS, Azure, GCP), containers, APIs, and SaaS applications — using Tenable.io, Qualys VMDR, Rapid7 InsightVM, and CrowdStrike Falcon Surface. Our asset inventory updates in real time as your environment changes, ensuring no new asset, cloud instance, or shadow IT deployment goes unmonitored. We maintain authenticated scan coverage across 100% of your known estate and continuously probe for unknown assets that expand your exploitable attack surface without your knowledge.
Risk-Based Prioritisation
CVSS + EPSS exploit prediction + active exploitation intelligence + asset criticality — producing a prioritised remediation queue that focuses effort where it matters most.
Cloud & Container Security
Agentless cloud scanning, CI/CD pipeline container image scanning (Snyk, Trivy, Wiz), Kubernetes assessment, and IaC security scanning (Checkov, tfsec).
Remediation Workflow Integration
Automated ticketing via ServiceNow, Jira, and BMC Remedy — with SLA tracking, asset owner assignment, exception management, and escalation governance.
Penetration Testing & Validation
Internal/external network pen testing, web application and API security assessments (OWASP Top 10), and red team exercises to validate real-world exploitability.
Threat Intelligence Integration
Active exploitation data from Recorded Future, VulnDB, and CISA KEV — ensuring newly weaponised vulnerabilities are immediately elevated in your remediation queue.
Executive & Board Reporting
Risk reduction trend dashboards, MTTR by severity, SLA compliance rates, attack surface exposure scores, and peer benchmark comparisons — in language boards understand.
Programme Maturity Assessment
Structured assessment of your current VM programme maturity against industry benchmarks — with a prioritised roadmap to achieve and sustain enterprise-grade capability.
All services delivered through a single pane of glass with unified reporting and alerting
What Sets Vimix Apart
Why enterprise security leaders choose Vimix's managed vulnerability programme over operating one in-house.
| Capability | Vimix Vulnerability Management | In-House / Point-in-Time Scanning |
|---|---|---|
| Asset coverage | Continuous discovery across cloud, on-prem, containers, APIs, and SaaS — zero blind spots | Scheduled scans of known assets — cloud sprawl and shadow IT routinely missed |
| Prioritisation | Risk-based: CVSS + EPSS + active exploitation + asset criticality + business context | CVSS score only — generates thousands of "critical" findings with no actionable ranking |
| Remediation governance | SLA-driven workflows, automated ticketing, asset owner assignment, and escalation paths | Spreadsheet-based tracking — no accountability, findings age without action |
| Cloud & container coverage | Agentless cloud scanning, CI/CD pipeline integration, IaC security scanning — shift-left by design | Traditional scanners not designed for ephemeral cloud and container workloads |
| Threat intelligence | CISA KEV, Recorded Future, and VulnDB integration — newly weaponised CVEs elevated immediately | No threat intelligence integration — newly exploited vulnerabilities treated same as theoretical ones |
| Validation | Post-remediation validation scanning and penetration testing to confirm attack paths are closed | Remediation assumed complete — no validation that fixes were effective |
| Executive reporting | Board-ready dashboards showing risk reduction trends, MTTR, and peer benchmarks | Raw scan reports — no translation into business risk language |
Stop Managing Vulnerability Lists. Start Reducing Business Risk.
The difference between a vulnerability management programme that generates reports and one that measurably reduces your organisation's risk posture is risk-based prioritisation, remediation governance, and continuous validation. Vimix delivers all three. Schedule a Vulnerability Programme Assessment with our team.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between vulnerability scanning and vulnerability management?
Vulnerability scanning is a technical activity — running a tool to identify known vulnerabilities in your systems. Vulnerability management is a programme — the full lifecycle of discovering assets, scanning continuously, prioritising findings by risk, governing remediation with accountability and SLAs, validating that fixes were effective, and reporting on risk reduction over time. Most organisations have scanning. Very few have a mature management programme. The gap between the two is where breaches happen.
What is EPSS and why is it better than CVSS for prioritisation?
CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System) measures the theoretical severity of a vulnerability based on its characteristics. EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) measures the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days, based on machine learning analysis of threat intelligence data. Research consistently shows that fewer than 5% of published CVEs are ever exploited — EPSS identifies which 5% those are likely to be, allowing security teams to focus remediation effort on vulnerabilities that represent real, imminent risk rather than theoretical worst-case scenarios.
What is the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalogue?
The CISA KEV catalogue is a curated list of vulnerabilities that CISA has confirmed are actively being exploited by threat actors in real-world attacks. US federal agencies are required to remediate KEV vulnerabilities within defined timeframes, and the catalogue has become the industry standard for identifying the highest-priority vulnerabilities for any organisation. Vimix integrates KEV data into our prioritisation engine — any vulnerability on the KEV list is automatically elevated to the top of your remediation queue regardless of its CVSS score.
How does Vimix handle vulnerability management for cloud environments?
Cloud environments require fundamentally different approaches to vulnerability management. Traditional agent-based scanning is impractical for ephemeral workloads that may exist for minutes. We use agentless cloud scanning for AWS, Azure, and GCP compute; integrate container image scanning into your CI/CD pipeline using Snyk, Trivy, or Prisma Cloud so vulnerabilities are caught before deployment; assess Kubernetes workload configurations; and scan infrastructure-as-code templates using Checkov and tfsec to prevent misconfigured resources from being provisioned. The goal is shift-left security — catching vulnerabilities at build time, not after they are running in production.
How does Vimix measure and report on vulnerability management programme effectiveness?
We track and report on a core set of programme metrics: mean time to remediate (MTTR) by severity tier, SLA compliance rate (percentage of vulnerabilities remediated within defined windows), attack surface exposure score trend over time, critical and high vulnerability age distribution, remediation backlog size and trajectory, and exception rate. These metrics are presented in executive dashboards designed for board and audit committee consumption — translating technical vulnerability data into the business risk language that enterprise leadership requires.
What is the relationship between vulnerability management and penetration testing?
Vulnerability management and penetration testing are complementary, not interchangeable. Vulnerability management provides continuous, broad coverage — identifying known vulnerabilities across your entire estate at scale. Penetration testing provides depth — a skilled adversary attempting to chain vulnerabilities together to achieve a specific objective (domain admin, data exfiltration, lateral movement) in a way that automated scanners cannot replicate. We recommend vulnerability management as a continuous programme, with penetration testing conducted at least annually and after significant infrastructure changes, to validate that your vulnerability management programme is closing real attack paths.
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