Risk-Based Vulnerability Management Explained: How to Prioritize What Matters Most
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Brinqa helps you reduce vulnerability overload and focus remediation efforts on the exposures that matter most—so you can demonstrate risk reduction, not just scan coverage.

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Hopping from tool to tool doesn’t get you the full picture of assets and their vulnerabilities. Get an instant understanding of risk with a unified view across your traditional and cloud infrastructure.
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Fix high-risk findings fast with automated remediation capabilities including ticket creation, owner assignment, notifications, and validation. Create workflows for risk acceptance, false positives and exception requests.
FAQ:
What is the difference between vulnerability assessment and vulnerability management?
Vulnerability assessment is the process of identifying, quantifying and prioritizing vulnerabilities in the software, hardware, cloud, and on-premises assets that make up an organization’s attack surface.
Vulnerability management is the operational practice of identifying, classifying, remediating and mitigating vulnerabilities across an organization’s attack surface.
Why is a risk-based approach to vulnerability management critical?
Risk-based vulnerability management is the process of prioritizing, remediating and reporting on vulnerabilities based on the risk they pose to the business.
Traditional vulnerability management lacks the business context and threat intelligence to prioritize vulnerabilities based on the risk they pose to the specific business. Too often, vulnerability management programs rely solely on CVSS scores or scanner results to assign a priority, leaving security teams drowning in vulnerabilities and application and operations teams frustrated by chasing down and fixing vulnerabilities that don’t matter.
What are the objectives of a vulnerability risk management program?
The objectives of a vulnerability risk management program are to identify, prioritize, communicate and remediate only the vulnerabilities that matter to the business.
A well-run risk-based program delivers the following benefits:
- Clear communication about the risk posed to the business by vulnerabilities across the attack surface. This communication needs to be in the language of the business and relevant to security, technical and business audiences.
- Prioritization that understands the business and provides transparency into why a particular vulnerability was prioritized.
- Streamlined remediation provides technology teams responsible for fixing vulnerabilities with the information they need in the tools they use in their daily workflow.
A risk-based approach enables the business to reduce the right cyber risks fast, while minimizing business disruption.
Unify Vulnerability & Exposure Management
Powered by the one-of-a-kind Cyber Risk Graph, the Brinqa Vulnerability and Exposure Management Platform enables security professionals to centralize findings, prioritize threats based on real-world risk, automate remediation, and communicate outcomes that matter.
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