How to Communicate Vulnerability Risk to IT and Management for Effective Prioritization

Key Points
Introduction: Explains why clear communication of vulnerability risk is essential for ensuring IT teams and management agree on remediation priorities.
What is Vulnerability Risk Communication: Describes how Vulnerability Manager Plus uses reports and dashboards to present severity, exploitability and compliance related insights that support informed decision making.
Quick Setup: Provides step by step guidance on generating executive reports, predefined reports and scheduled reports to communicate vulnerability risk effectively.

Introduction

Vulnerability teams often struggle to align remediation priorities across IT and leadership when findings are not communicated clearly. Without structured reporting, high risk issues may be overlooked and low risk items may receive unnecessary attention. Effective communication ensures that the right vulnerabilities receive the right level of focus.

What is Vulnerability Risk Communication?

Vulnerability risk communication in Vulnerability Manager Plus refers to presenting vulnerability findings in a structured, consumable format so IT teams and management can understand overall risk levels and make informed decisions. The platform supports executive summaries, predefined analytical reports and scheduled reporting workflows that help organizations maintain visibility into vulnerability exposure and compliance trends.

Quick Setup

Follow these steps to generate and share vulnerability risk reports using built in reporting features in Vulnerability Manager Plus.

Step 1: Generate executive level summaries

1. Sign in to the Vulnerability Manager Plus console.
2. Navigate to Reports → Executive Reports..
3. Select the available executive summaries to view overall security posture, including vulnerability distribution and risk exposure.

Executive Reports provide leadership with clear, digestible insights

More structure details appear in the Executive Reports documentation.

Step 2: Use Predefined Reports for detailed vulnerability breakdowns

1. Go to Reports → Predefined Reports.
2. Choose a report that aligns with what you need to communicate, such as vulnerability distribution or systems requiring action.
3. Open the selected report to examine detailed findings organized for operational review.
4. Use Patch Availability filters to prioritize issues that can be quickly resolved.

These reports support IT teams with actionable detail.

A supporting reference is the Predefined Reports guide.

Step 3: Schedule Reports for consistent communication

1. Navigate to Reports → Schedule Reports.
2. Select the type of report you want to automate.
3. Configure the schedule, recipients and delivery frequency as required.
4. Save the schedule to ensure reports are routinely delivered to IT and management teams.

This step ensures regular visibility into vulnerability risk.

Further details are found in the Schedule Reports documentation.

Step 4: Review Attention Required items for immediate communication triggers

1. Open Patches → Attention Required.
2. Review vulnerabilities that the system has identified as needing
3. Share this information with relevant teams to guide rapid remediation planning.

This provides a fast way to highlight issues that cannot be delayed.

For more details, refer: Attention Required.

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