Home / IT Security / Vulnerability Management
A scan is a photograph. This is the motion picture.
Continuous discovery, scanning, prioritization and verification — the cycle that keeps known holes from staying open for months.
The least glamorous security service, and one of the few with a provable payoff.
Attackers rarely need a zero-day. A vulnerability that has been public for months, on a host you forgot, works fine.
Vulnerability management is a loop, not an event: know every asset, scan it with credentials, rank what you find by whether it is actually being exploited in the wild, get the fix deployed without breaking production, and verify the fix landed. Then run the loop again — because last month's clean report says nothing about today.
Prioritization is where most programs fail. Raw CVSS scores mark thousands of findings “high”. We rank by what matters instead: is it internet-facing, is it on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list, what does it expose, and how likely is exploitation — so your team fixes twenty things that matter, not two hundred that don't.
Monthly at minimum; weekly for internet-facing systems. New critical vulnerabilities do not wait for your schedule, so neither does the cycle.
When something like a mass-exploited VPN or mail-server flaw drops, you get a same-day answer to the only question that matters: are we exposed, and what are we doing about it?
Every asset
Servers, endpoints, network gear, cloud instances, SaaS — including the unmanaged ones. You cannot patch what you don't know exists.
With credentials
Authenticated scanning sees what is actually installed, not what a port guesses. Unauthenticated scans flatter you.
By real risk
CISA KEV and exploit availability first, exposure and asset criticality second, raw CVSS last.
Coordinated
Patches, configuration changes or compensating controls — scheduled with the people who own uptime, tracked to completion.
Prove it closed
Re-scan confirms the fix. A finding leaves the register when it is gone, not when someone says it is.
Reporting that survives contact with a board meeting.
- Live register
- Every open finding with owner, age, severity and status. One list, no parallel spreadsheets.
- Trend, not snapshot
- Time-to-remediate for critical findings, coverage percentage, and recurring offenders — the three numbers that show whether the program works.
- Exception log
- What you consciously chose not to fix, why, what compensates for it, and when it gets reviewed. Honest programs have one.
- Monthly summary
- One page: what appeared, what was fixed, what is overdue, what we recommend. Readable by a non-engineer in five minutes.
Where this sits in the program.
Penetration test
Scanning finds known weaknesses; a pentest shows what a human chains them into. You want both, on different clocks.
Sources and standards behind the ranking.
How old is your oldest known critical?
If the answer involves opening a spreadsheet from last year, the program is not working. Tell us the size of the environment and we will quote the cycle.
Contact us- info@bstedge.com
- Response
- Within one business day
- Cadence
- Monthly minimum; weekly external