VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT is a continuous security process where we identify, assess, prioritize, and remediate security weaknesses in systems, applications, and networks before attackers can exploit them. It involves regular scanning, risk-based analysis, patching, and continuous monitoring to reduce the organization’s attack surface.
Vulnerability Management is the ongoing process of finding, fixing, and tracking security weaknesses before they turn into real attacks.”
I PRIORITIZE VULNERABILITIES using a risk-based approach. I look at things like the severity/CVSS score, how critical the affected asset is to the business, and whether it’s internet-facing or internal. and is there active threat intelligence showing the vulnerability is being exploited in the wild?
KPI From a KPI point of view, I focus on metrics like mean time to remediate (especially for critical issues), SLA compliance for different severity levels, the number of outstanding critical/high vulnerabilities, and how our overall risk/exposure is trending over time. That helps show not just that we’re fixing issues, but that we’re consistently reducing risk.
I also heavily monitor our SLA compliance rate for critical issues and the aging of our vulnerability backlog.The aim is to burn down the highest‑risk backlog fast without breaking the operations.