How to Track Vulnerability Remediation from Discovery to Closure

Key Points
Need to Track Vulnerability Remediation: Describes why organizations need a clear workflow to move vulnerabilities from detection through to verification and closure.
What is Vulnerability Remediation Tracking: Explains how VMP helps monitor vulnerabilities throughout their lifecycle using scanning data, remediation options and reporting.
Quick Setup: Provides the step by step process to detect vulnerabilities, initiate remediation, and verify closure using built in VMP capabilities.

Introduction

Tracking vulnerabilities from the moment they are discovered until they are fully resolved is essential for managing risk. Without a structured workflow, teams may lose visibility into what was assigned, what was fixed and what still needs work. Vulnerability Manager Plus provides scanning, remediation and reporting capabilities that help IT teams create a clear remediation lifecycle and confirm closure with confidence.

What is Vulnerability Remediation Tracking?

Vulnerability remediation tracking is the process of following each vulnerability through its lifecycle, from detection during scanning to verification that the issue is resolved. In Vulnerability Manager Plus, this involves identifying risks through vulnerability scanning, evaluating available fixes, applying the appropriate remediation method and confirming closure through rescans and reports. The platform centralizes all stages so teams can monitor progress and ensure issues do not remain open.

Quick Setup

The following steps help you track vulnerabilities from discovery to closure using built in features of Vulnerability Manager Plus.

Step 1: Detect vulnerabilities through continuous scanning

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.

Step 3: Apply available remediation actions

1. If the vulnerability has a patch available, choose to remediate via patch deployment.
2. For teams seeking faster closure with minimal manual effort, enable Automatic Patch Deployment (APD) to deploy available patches automatically.
3. To set up APD, navigate to Deployment → Automate Patch Deployment, create a task, select patch categories and severities, choose target systems and configure a schedule.

APD helps reduce the number of manually pending vulnerabilities and speeds up overall remediation.

Step 4: Verify vulnerability closure through rescanning

1. After remediation is applied, initiate a rescan of the affected systems
2. Verify that the vulnerability no longer appears in the active vulnerability list.
3. Closed vulnerabilities will reflect as resolved once confirmed through scanning.

Step 5: Track remediation progress and closure with reports

1. Navigate to Reports in the Vulnerability Manager Plus console.
2. Use Executive Reports to get high-level remediation summaries for leadership.
3. Explore Predefined Reports for detailed insights such as Patch reports, System reports, APD reports and so on.
4. Use these reports to verify which vulnerabilities have progressed from detected → remediated, and identify systems still requiring action.
5. For recurring visibility:
   • Go to Schedule Reports
   • Select the required report
   • Set delivery frequency
   • Add recipients

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

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