Vulnerability Management Solutions

Today we're announcing Autonomous Vulnerability Response (AVR), the first end-to-end autonomous AI vulnerability response capability proven in production. Most vulnerability management tools stop at the ticket. AVR runs the whole loop as one continuous process: 1. Detection: agentless, catches zero day exposures within ~10 minutes of disclosure. 2. Investigation: gathers evidence across the environment, correlates against asset ownership and compensating controls, produces a findings package with reasoning preserved. 3. Remediation: generates the fix, scores change impact, dispatches through Jira or ServiceNow, and executes under customer guardrails. 4. Validation: independently confirms the fix through a scanner rescan or SBOM rebuild. If it didn't hold, the ticket reopens automatically. Where customer policy allows, the loop runs without human intervention. Where policy requires oversight, humans stay in. The video below is with Corey Kaemming (CISO, Valvoline Instant Oil Change) and Shawn Kerns (Head of InfoSec, University of the Pacific), two of the practitioners running AVR in production. Full write-up in the comments.

𝑺𝒆𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒂𝒏 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕. 𝑰𝒕’𝒔 𝒂 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔. 𝑽𝑨𝑷𝑻 𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒂 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔𝒏’𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒆. 𝑰𝒕 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒕-𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒚—𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒎𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕. Many organizations still treat Vulnerability Assessment / Penetration Testing as a checkbox activity—done once to satisfy audit or customer requirements. Most organizations do VA/PT for audits. ✔ Report generated ✔ Findings accepted ✔ Audit passed ❌ Security posture unchanged within weeks. Why One-Time VA/PT Fails • It’s a point-in-time snapshot • New vulnerabilities appear every day rather every hour or even faster • Cloud or Infrastructure changes, patches, and deployments shift risk constantly The problem? 🔴 Threats don’t wait for your next audit cycle. A one-time VA/PT gives you a snapshot in time. New vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, exposed assets, and exploit techniques emerge daily. Attackers operate continuously—automated, fast, and opportunistic—while organizations often take weeks or months to fix what was already identified. Attackers exploit the gap between discovery and patching. That gap = breach window, that is where breaches happen. Why continuous monitoring & patching matters: # Security posture changes every day with new CVEs, cloud changes, and deployments # Risk must be prioritized by exploitability and business impact, not just CVSS score # Faster detection + faster remediation drastically reduces attack surface Metrics like MTTR (Mean Time to Remediate) matter more than the number of findings Real security maturity comes from: ✔ Continuous vulnerability discovery ✔ Risk-based prioritization (what matters most, first) ✔ Timely patching and compensating controls ✔ Ongoing validation—not static reports Audits are important. VA/PT is important, but security cannot be static in a dynamic threat landscape that evolves every hour or even at much faster pace. 👉 Organizations that move from periodic testing to continuous exposure management don’t just pass audits—they reduce real business risk. #CyberSecurity #VulnerabilityManagement #ContinuousMonitoring #RiskBasedSecurity #CISO #vCISO #AuditAndCompliance #SecurityLeadership

One of the biggest cybersecurity questions for the payments industry today is not whether AI will reshape the threat landscape. It already has. The real question is whether our defence models are evolving fast enough in response. That’s why Visa’s work with Anthropic on Project Glasswing is so relevant. What stands out is not just the use of AI in vulnerability discovery, but the focus on a harder challenge: helping security teams validate, prioritise and remediate vulnerabilities faster, before they become operational risk. What is especially important is our decision to open source the AI-powered vulnerability management harness developed through this work. In payments, resilience is never just about one company. It depends on the strength of the broader ecosystem - the platforms, software, open-source components and partners that underpin how money moves. If better tools can help security teams manage vulnerabilities faster and more effectively, making them available more broadly has the potential to strengthen resilience across the ecosystem, not just within a single network. That, to me, is the bigger point. As cyber threats become faster and more sophisticated, resilience has to become more adaptive, more intelligent and more collaborative too. #Cybersecurity #Payments #AI #Resilience #DigitalTrust #Visa https://lnkd.in/gQbirhqT

Nobody Has Solved Vulnerability Management Let's face it - vulnerability management remains unsolved—not for lack of tools or effort, but because the problem is rooted in the reality of complex, ever-evolving IT environments and misaligned priorities. The Root Cause 🚨 Prioritisation Paralysis: Security teams commonly label “everything” as a priority, leading to an unsustainable situation where real threats get lost in the noise. When all vulnerabilities are urgent, none actually are, diluting focus and overloading remediation teams. 🚨 Lack of Standardisation: Without industry-standard ratings, organisations juggle different scoring systems (CVSS, vendor scores, managerial directives), making effective risk prioritisation nearly impossible. 🚨 Silos & Communication Gaps: Security and IT operate in isolation—security wants speed, IT wants stability. This results in missed patches, rushed deployments without proper testing, and unclear accountability. 🚨 Information Blind Spots: Organisations lack full visibility into their attack surface, shadow IT, and contextual risk data. This leads to decisions made in the dark, undermining any best efforts at prioritisation. Why Current Approaches Struggle ⚠️ Overwhelming Volume: Monthly maintenance, zero-day threats, and critical app updates all compete for attention. Most teams fall back on rigid cycles, missing the nuance needed for real-world threats. ⚠️ Manual & Reactive Processes: Reliance on spreadsheets or siloed tools results in a reactive, rather than proactive, approach to patching. Best Practices for Patch Prioritisation To break the cycle, leading practice is moving toward a risk-based approach: 💡 Track-Based Remediation: Assign vulnerabilities to distinct tracks—routine, critical application, or urgent zero-days—and manage each according to risk and business impact. 💡 Continuous Contextual Analysis: Integrate vulnerability intelligence, exploit likelihood, compliance requirements, and business exposure into prioritisation—not just severity scores. 💡 Automation & AI: Use AI for fast analysis of vast data sources, applying predictive models to score risk more accurately. Automate patch testing and deployment to close gaps and improve consistency. 💡 Unified Visibility: Invest in tools that give a comprehensive, context-rich view of your organisation’s true attack surface and current exposures. The Path Forward Nobody has solved vulnerability management because the challenge isn’t just technical—it’s operational, cultural, and contextual. Until organisations bridge silos, clarify ownership, embrace risk-based prioritisation, and utilise advanced automation, vulnerability management will continue to be a juggling act.

Most vulnerability management programs are just… scanning. And the CEO thinks they’re “covered.” I’ve sat with too many executives who believed: “We scan. We patch. We do a yearly pentest. We’re good.” Then something small turned into something expensive. 🧙🏼♂️This is how you prevent a $3M incident from starting as a $1k misconfiguration. Here’s what a real Vulnerability Management program should look Program Management → You can't manage this without people, they need to be on top of everything going on. → Every risk has an owner, a deadline, and a business decision attached. → Without this, findings sit in dashboards. You need a risk register for anything delayed or accepted. Attack Surface Management → You must look beyond your walls and see your business from their POV → Finds exposed assets you didn’t know were there → If attackers can see it, it’s in scope. You need continuous external discovery, not a once-a-year review. DevSecOps → If you write code, it needs to be tested, safe and not just once pre-production. → Prevents new weaknesses from being built into software before release. → Security checks must be part of dev, not bolted on after launch. Continuous Pentesting → Just like the dashboard lights on your car, they don't just check once a year. → Tests are always running to catch risks before attackers do. → Your world changes. Validation has to keep up, not wait for next year’s report. Red Team → A standard test kicks in the door, this is sneaky sneaky real.  → Simulates a real attacker moving quietly over time to find gaps. → This tests maturity. It tests detection, response, and leadership visibility. Context & Threat Intel → Without context everything is "critical," you want to prioritize to reduce efforts long term. → Focuses on weaknesses attackers are actually using, not just what exists. → Your business is not every business. Pentesting (Point in Time) → You need skilled and creative people to put your protection to the test. → Shows how attackers break in and what damage they can do. → Validate controls and reset assumptions. It’s a snapshot, not a strategy. Patch & Remediation Management → Finding all this issues means nothing if you don't fix them. Lots of people power needed here. → Fixes known weaknesses fast to reduce downtime and breach risk. → Measure time-to-fix, enforce deadlines, escalate delays. Otherwise “critical” becomes normal. Vulnerability Scanning → This is day 1 stuff ignoring this is like leaving your front door open. → Finds known weaknesses across your systems. → Scan consistently across servers, endpoints, cloud, and apps. If you’re a business leader you need to understand:  Vulnerability management is not a security activity. It’s a risk decision system. Most companies won’t mature past scanning. The ones that do outperform in resilience, deal confidence, and audit outcomes. 💾 Save this as your benchmark. 🔁 Repost for other leaders who think scanning equals protection.

From Vulnerability Management to CTEM: Why Security Must Shift from Lists to Outcomes Most vulnerability management programs are doing precisely what they were designed to do. Scan. Score. Ticket. Patch. The problem is that the environment has changed. Security teams are buried in thousands of “critical” findings while attackers exploit a very small number of real paths to impact. CVSS alone cannot tell you which vulnerability leads to customer data loss, financial fraud, or operational disruption. That gap is where breaches happen. Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) closes this gap by shifting the question from “What is vulnerable?” to “What can actually be exploited to harm the business?” The Shift Through a Practical Lens People: CTEM forces ownership. Every critical exposure has a named owner, escalation path, and risk decision. No owner means permanent exposure. Data: Prioritization becomes contextual. Threat intelligence, asset criticality, internet reachability, and compensating controls matter more than raw CVSS scores. Process: CTEM runs as a continuous cycle: scope, discover, prioritize, validate, mobilize. Security stops sending generic reports and starts delivering evidence-backed actions tied to business outcomes. Technology: Discovery expands beyond servers to identity, SaaS, cloud misconfigurations, OT, and AI systems. Validation tools prove exploitability before remediation is requested. Business: The output is reduced exposure to crown-jewel services, faster remediation of real attack paths, and defensible risk conversations at the board level. CTEM Operationalizes Leading Frameworks Scoping aligns to NIST CSF Identify and CIS Control 1, defining what matters most. Discovery maps to MITRE ATT&CK reconnaissance and CIS Control 2, revealing the complete attack surface. Prioritization leverages NIST CSF Protect and OWASP Risk Rating, focusing on exploitable paths to critical assets. Validation executes MITRE ATT&CK techniques in controlled environments, proving which attack paths succeed. Mobilization drives NIST CSF Respond and Recover through structured workflows, closing validated exposures within defined SLAs. This continuous cycle replaces point-in-time assessments with ongoing validation that frameworks work as intended. Why This Matters Now Adversaries move faster, often with AI-assisted automation. Monthly scans cannot keep up. CTEM enables preemptive defense by focusing resources on the small set of exposures that actually enable attacks. Start small. Pick one scope: external attack surface, identity, or your top revenue application. Prove value. Then expand. Security maturity is not about finding more issues. It is about closing the right ones. #CTEM #ExposureManagement #CybersecurityStrategy #RiskManagement #SecurityLeadership

Here's what 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗥𝗶𝘀𝗸 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 looks like in 2025, based on practitioner interviews, vendor briefings, deep evaluation of emerging as well as established players and countless hours spent in researching. Report link: https://lnkd.in/gUS-z327 Vulnerability management isn’t what it was in the 2000s. The days of telling people to scan their assets for vulnerabilities, counting number of remediated CVEs and relying on CVSS scores are behind us. This report highlights key challenges that practitioners voiced, deep dive into innovative ways vendors are evolving under risk and exposure management category, using our DDPER (Deployment, Data Collection, Prioritization, Exposure, Remediation) framework, practical 5 step guide for practitioners and our prediction. 1️⃣ 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗜𝘀 𝗕𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗥𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱 Modern platforms move beyond traditional configuration reads to define exposure. We see solutions using innovative ways to not just define but validate exposure. Taking approaches such as true network reachability analysis, detection of compensating controls in place, ingesting unstructured data, and even assessing social chatter to define exploitation probability, beyond KEV and EPSS databases. 2️⃣ 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗜𝘀 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 Acronyms like VM, RBVM, ASM, CAASM, ASPM, BAS, CTEM, and CNAPP are no longer independent. The future lies in all of these platforms delivering dynamic scoring and context-driven risk and exposure management. 3️⃣ 𝗔𝗴𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝘃𝘀. 𝗣𝘂𝗿𝗲-𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘀 We’re seeing two clear market paths emerge: 𝗔𝗴𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘀: Unify vulnerability data from external scanners into a normalized risk view - ideal for organizations with diverse vulnerability tooling already in place. 𝗣𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘀: Conduct continuous native scanning across cloud, infrastructure, identity, and data (such as CNAPP platforms) - ideal for organizations looking for a single solution coverage. 4️⃣ 𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 Leading platforms now bridge security and IT with bi-directional ticketing, in-depth recommendations, SLA tracking, and fix validation turning findings into measurable risk reduction. 5️⃣ 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗿’𝘀 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸 Selecting the right platform now requires a structured approach, one that maps business needs, operational maturity, and desired automation outcomes to the right vendor model. This 5 step guide is to provide organizations with a quick way to evaluate how to approach the market. Top Vendors evaluated in-depth: Astelia  Axonius  Cogent Security Orca Security Seemplicity Tonic Security XM Cyber Nagomi Security Zafran Security 

Vulnerability Management Is Not a Tool — It’s a Discipline and a Culture In today’s threat landscape, attackers move fast… but a mature vulnerability management program moves faster. A strong VM program is one of the core pillars of cyber resilience, bridging security, IT, DevOps, compliance, and leadership under one unified mission: reduce risk before attackers exploit it. Here are the best practices every organization should implement 1. Build a Complete, Real-Time Asset Inventory You cannot protect what you do not know exists. Continuous discovery of servers, endpoints, applications, APIs, containers Classify assets by criticality Maintain visibility over cloud + on-prem + hybrid environments 2. Prioritize Based on Risk, Not Just CVSS Scores Not all vulnerabilities are equal. Use threat intelligence, exploit availability, business impact, and asset sensitivity Focus on vulnerabilities actively leveraged by attackers Map to MITRE ATT&CK to understand exploitation paths 3. Automate Scanning, Detection, and Ticketing Speed reduces exposure windows. Automated scheduled scans Continuous scanning for cloud and CI/CD pipelines Auto-generated remediation tickets with SLAs 4. Integrate VM with SOC, SIEM, and Patch Management Visibility must be end-to-end. Correlate vulnerabilities with real-time attack attempts Align detection rules with unpatched high-risk CVEs Accelerate patching cycles with workflow automation 5. Enforce Strong Patch Management Governance Define patching SLAs by asset criticality (e.g., 48 hours for critical systems) Patch regularly, test carefully Track patch success rates and exceptions 6. Secure the Software Supply Chain Scan dependencies, images, libraries, and IaC templates Enforce SAST/DAST/SCA in CI/CD pipelines Maintain SBOMs for transparency 7. Measure What Matters: KPIs & KRIs Mean Time to Remediate (MTTR) % of assets covered by scanning Vulnerabilities per critical asset SLA compliance rates 8. Build a Collaborative Culture Security + IT + DevOps must work as one team. Clear ownership of remediation Continuous training Transparent reporting to leadership 9. Stay Ahead with Threat Intel & Continuous Learning Track zero-days actively exploited in the wild Apply compensating controls if patches aren’t available Conduct regular attack simulations 10. Make Vulnerability Management a Continuous Cycle Discover ➝ Assess ➝ Prioritize ➝ Remediate ➝ Verify ➝ Report ➝ Improve This is how organizations stay secure, compliant, and resilient in a world where threats evolve every hour #CyberSecurity #VulnerabilityManagement #ThreatIntelligence #PatchManagement #RiskManagement #SOC #InfoSec #SecurityLeadership #DevSecOps #CyberResilience #ZeroTrust #CloudSecurity #SecurityBestPractices #MITREATTACK #CISO #SIEM #GRC #ContinuousMonitoring

Vulnerability severity has become a proxy for risk, even where it no longer reflects reality. For years, security teams have treated vulnerability management (VM) as the backbone of risk reduction. Traditional VM was built for IT environments, predictable devices, patchable systems, and repeatable workflows. Cyber-physical systems don’t work that way. Their risk profile is defined by what’s reachable, exploitable, and operationally consequential. This is where most organizations get blindsided. Three things break the model: 1. Exploitability ≠ Severity A CVSS “medium” can be the most actively exploited vulnerability in the wild. A “critical” can be effectively harmless if the device is isolated, segmented, or has compensating controls in place. Static scoring doesn’t reflect attacker intent, capability, or speed of weaponization. 2. Blast Radius Matters More Than the CVE In CPS environments, a single exploited device can: Halt production, shut down clinical workflows, disrupt logistics, and disable safety systems Two vulnerabilities with identical severity can have completely different downstream effects depending on where they sit in the topology and how other assets depend on them. 3. “Patch It” Isn’t an Option Most CPS assets: → cannot be patched during production → run OS versions that are no longer supported → require vendor approval for updates → have uptime requirements that make maintenance windows impossible VM programs built around patch cycles will always fail here. A meaningful model must integrate: ↳ Exploitability Is the vulnerability being weaponized? Is it known-exploited? How quickly is it spreading? ↳ Reachability Can an attacker actually get to the asset? How many attack paths lead to it? Which compensating controls exist (or don’t)? ↳ Operational Impact If compromised, does it impact safety? Clinical care, production, or critical infrastructure? ↳ Business Criticality A vulnerability on a lab test system ≠ , the same vulnerability on a surgical robot, or a tier-1 manufacturing line. ↳ Blast Radius What happens after a compromise? Does it cascade? Does it pivot into IT, cloud, identity systems, or other operational networks? This is why analysts across all three reports converge on the same conclusion: Risk lives at the intersection of assets, findings, environment, and operational workflows. CPS environments can’t be defended with linear IT-driven VM programs. And they can’t be secured by looking at vulnerabilities in isolation. The organizations gaining an advantage are the ones shifting to models that: → combine asset intelligence with context → correlate vulnerabilities with real attack paths → evaluate impact through operational and physical consequences → prioritize based on business outcomes, not lists → drive remediation through workflows, not spreadsheets Because in CPS security, what matters is which vulnerabilities can hurt you, and why.

The rise of AI is fundamentally changing how organizations discover and respond to vulnerabilities—and Anthropic is pushing the frontier with initiatives like Claude Glasswing, designed to surface and analyze vulnerabilities at unprecedented scale and speed. But here’s the reality 👇 Finding vulnerabilities faster is only half the battle. Enterprises today are overwhelmed by: Thousands of vulnerabilities Fragmented tools and signals Limited context on business risk impact Slow, manual remediation cycles 👉 This is where DigitalXForce changes the game. With its AI-powered Continuous Control Assurance and Enterprise Security Risk Posture Management (ESRPM) capabilities, DigitalXForce is uniquely positioned to operationalize outputs from advanced AI systems like Claude Glasswing: 🔹 Normalize and correlate vulnerability data across systems 🔹 Map vulnerabilities to controls, frameworks, and business risk 🔹 Prioritize based on real impact—not just CVSS scores 🔹 Continuously validate whether controls are effective 🔹 Drive automated, audit-ready remediation workflows The result: From “vulnerability overload” → to risk-driven, actionable intelligence This is the future: AI discovers risk. DigitalXForce ensures it is understood, prioritized, and remediated—continuously. As organizations accelerate AI adoption, the combination of: Claude’s deep intelligence DigitalXForce’s control, governance, and assurance layer …creates a powerful foundation for trusted, resilient, and audit-ready enterprises. #AI #CyberSecurity #RiskManagement #ContinuousCompliance #DigitalXForce #Anthropic #VulnerabilityManagement #AIforSecurity #ESRPM