Vulnerability Management as a Service

CVSS alone is misleading: only a small share of published CVEs (under 5%) are actively exploited in the real world, yet findings labeled 'critical' inflate the lists. Our prioritization formula combines three inputs: the CVSS base score, exploit intelligence (the CISA KEV catalog and the EPSS probability score, which estimates the likelihood that a flaw will be exploited within 30 days) and asset criticality (whether it is internet-facing and what data it holds). The result: instead of an 'everything is red' report, a realistic action list of 15-20 items to close this month. This approach concentrates patching effort on the vulnerabilities that carry real risk.

Scanning is an automated, continuous process that finds known vulnerabilities across a broad surface; a penetration test is a narrowly scoped, periodic engagement in which an expert chains vulnerabilities together into a real attack scenario. The two are complements, not competitors: penetration testing without scanning is like trying to follow a film from a single photograph taken once a year; scanning without penetration testing leaves the question 'what happens when these flaws combine' unanswered. A mature program is built like this: continuous VMaaS + 1-2 targeted penetration tests a year + application testing before every major release. Standards such as PCI-DSS require exactly this pairing.