How to Monitor and Report on Vulnerability Remediation Progress

Key Points
Introduction: Highlights why tracking remediation progress is essential for maintaining visibility and reducing security risk.
What is Vulnerability Remediation: Describes how VMP supports identifying, prioritizing and resolving vulnerabilities through scanning, assessment and remediation actionsDefines how VMP enables monitoring through continuous scanning, vulnerability insights and structured reporting.
Quick Setup: Provides the step by step workflow to review vulnerability status, confirm remediation and generate or schedule reports for ongoing visibility.

Introduction

Monitoring vulnerability remediation progress is crucial for ensuring that security issues are resolved in a timely and efficient manner. Without clear visibility, it becomes difficult to understand whether remediation is keeping pace with identified risks. Vulnerability Manager Plus provides built in scanning and reporting capabilities that enable teams to continuously track remediation activity and communicate progress clearly.

What is Vulnerability Remediation Monitoring?

Vulnerability remediation monitoring in Vulnerability Manager Plus is the ongoing process of reviewing vulnerability status, validating remediation actions through rescanning and using comprehensive reports to track progress over time. This allows teams to confirm that vulnerabilities are being actively managed, resolved and communicated to stakeholders.

Quick Setup

Below are the steps required to monitor and report on remediation progress using features available in Vulnerability Manager Plus.

Step 1: Continuously scan systems to update vulnerability status

1. Sign in to the Vulnerability Manager Plus console.
2. Vulnerability Manager Plus automatically updates its vulnerability database and continuously scans all managed endpoints through the agent.
3. Review all vulnerabilities that were detected during automated scanning.

For more details, refer Vulnerability Scanning.

Step 2: Review and assess vulnerabilities for remediation planning

1. Open Threats → Software Vulnerabilities.
2. Review severity levels, exploit availability and affected assets.
3. Use filters to identify high priority items that require immediate action.
4. Select a vulnerability to view its details, impact and remediation options.

This ensures that limited time is spent on only the highest value fixes.

Step 3: Track remediation progress using predefined and executive reports

1. Navigate to Reports in the Vulnerability Manager Plus console.
2. Open Predefined Reports to analyze detailed remediation progress, including:
   • Vulnerabilities sorted by severity to show how many remain unresolved.
   • Systems affected by each vulnerability to identify where remediation is still required.
3. Use these reports to confirm the effectiveness of remediation actions and to identify systems requiring additional attention.
4. Access Executive Reports for high level summaries tailored to management, including:
   • Overall risk posture
   • Changes in the number of vulnerabilities over time
   • Distribution of vulnerabilities across the environment
5. Compare insights from both report types to verify that remediation activities are progressing as planned and to refine remediation schedules or priorities.

Step 4: Schedule automated reports for consistent visibility

1. Go to Reports → Schedule Reports.
2. Choose the specific vulnerability or remediation report you want automatically delivered.
3. Set the reporting frequency such as daily, weekly or monthly.
4. Add recipient email addresses so IT teams and management receive regular updates
5. Use these scheduled reports to ensure continuous oversight without requiring manual report generation.

Scheduling reports keeps teams informed without needing to log in manually.

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