CRITICALSTART® Vulnerability Prioritization

Identify what to fix first with vulnerability prioritization based on real-world exploit weaponization

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Make Every Vulnerability Scan Actionable

Critical Start Vulnerability Prioritization enriches the data from the tools you already own with expertly curated threat intelligence and customizable asset criticality. 

With Vulnerability Prioritization, you’ll fix what matters most, first. Then you can deal with the rest.

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Make Every Vulnerability Scan Actionable

What’s Wrong with Vulnerability Scanners Today? 

As the number of vulnerabilities grows, the time to exploit shrinks, and security teams drown in disorganized and unprioritized vulnerability scanning data.

Vulnerability scan results: 

  • Lack critical business context, leading to inefficient patching
  • Don’t identify which vulnerabilities are being actively exploited by threat actors 
  • Result in lengthy lists of vulnerabilities that cannot be used to inform leadership of risks without significant manual input and effort  

Organizations like yours need a better way to gather actionable data that helps them reduce risk quickly. You need a risk-based vulnerability prioritization solution that… 

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Gets the greatest value out of the tools you already own by prioritizing and categorizing data in a way that makes sense. 

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Helps you measurably reduce exposure with scan results enriched with business context, asset criticality, and exploit-aware threat intelligence.  

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Enhances cross-functional collaboration so that each stakeholder, from implementation to leadership teams, stays informed and ahead of vulnerability-based risks. 

Accelerate Risk Reduction with Vulnerability Prioritization 

Critical Start Vulnerability Prioritization helps your team overcome the challenges of addressing an overwhelming number of vulnerabilities. By integrating seamlessly with your vulnerability scanning tools and enhancing scan results with threat data, exploitability, asset criticality, and more, you can take decisive action to reduce exposure. With dynamic risk scores assigned to each vulnerability, Vulnerability Prioritization accelerates patching efforts, improves vulnerability reporting, and provides metrics that prove risk reduction across the organization.

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Your Tools, but Better

Get better scan results with actionable vulnerability prioritization, generated daily from the vulnerability management tools you already have in place.

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Actionable

Replace volumes of unprioritized scan data with actionable insights.

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Repeatable and Transparent

Set your schedule for vulnerability scans and deliver results directly to stakeholders through your workflows and ticketing tools.

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Timely

Know which systems are at the greatest risk of exploitation with timely insights into weaponization intelligence.

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Integrated

Connect your Vulnerability Management tools with the Critical Start platform using your credentials and start scanning.

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Collaborative

Give each stakeholder the data they need to understand what’s at risk and make informed decisions with confidence.

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Impactful

Easily identify, prioritize, and patch vulnerabilities with the biggest impact based on known weaponization, ransomware attacks, exploit kits, APTs, and more.

Measurably Reduce Exposure 

Decide, Respond, and Communicate with Confidence

How do you know which vulnerabilities to patch first to reduce risk? If you’re like most security leaders, you rely on CVSS scores and do your best to patch critical assets. There is a lot of dangerous guesswork involved.

    Knowing which vulnerabilities are present in your environment isn’t enough. You need an efficient and effective way to communicate with IT teams and app owners so that they know what they need to fix, why it’s important, and how to remediate.

    Critical Start Vulnerability Prioritization lets you stop guessing and start acting to measurably reduce exposure.  

    Vulnerability Prioritization gives cross-functional teams a single source of truth for prioritized vulnerability data so your cross-functional teams can communicate faster and make impactful decisions with confidence.

    Prioritized vulnerability remediation is a highly efficient strategy that significantly reduces the potential for breaches or incidents. Here’s how it works: 

    • Platform

      The Critical Start platform continuously monitors and analyzes data from connected vulnerability management tools and applies risk scoring and prioritization. Scan results are enriched by threat intelligence, including vulnerability weaponization, zero-day threat activity, exploitability, exploit probability, and more. 

    • Risk Prioritization

      You can tag and group assets according to location, function, owner, or business impact, and assign weights based on asset importance.  Vulnerability Prioritization automatically adjusts risk scores of vulnerability findings to reflect the potential impact of each vulnerability on the organization.

    • Asset Criticality

      Daily asset criticality computations keep you up to date with your attack surface. Automated and continuous analysis of vulnerability and contextual information from external sources (threat intelligence, exploit databases, patch availability, etc.) all contribute to accelerated and improved vulnerability prioritization. 

    See why vulnerability management is a critical component of guarding against cyber threats

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    View By Vulnerability

    Simplify vulnerability management with an enriched view of host and vulnerability information. Each row clearly represents CVE and non-CVE vulnerabilities along with asset criticality, risk scores, number of weaponized CVEs, detection dates, aging data, and more.

    View By Asset

    Remediate with confidence with this asset-centric view that shows prioritized findings by asset. In the grouped view, you’ll see asset data from all vulnerability management sources, including the total number of vulnerabilities and CVEs, weaponized vulnerabilities present, and risk scoring that lets you determine what assets to patch first for the greatest impact.

    View By CVE

    Gain an advantage over would-be attackers with a CVE view that shows you prioritization based on risk scores, exploitability, weaponization, ransomware use, and more. With this view, you can make critical decisions that inform next steps to protect your most valuable assets, and communicate with operations and management teams to ensure cross-team collaboration and unified efforts.

    Choose Your Path to Vulnerability Prioritization

    No two organizations are alike. Whether you need the complete cyber risk monitoring, posture and event analytics, and response orchestration of our industry-leading Managed Detection and Response (MDR), or you want a stand-alone, turnkey Vulnerability Management Service (VMS), we have you covered.

    As Part of Your Organization’s Overarching Risk Reduction Strategy

    As a critical preemptive security offering, Vulnerability Prioritization both stands alone and enhances other services and solutions offered by Critical Start. Additional risk-reduction capabilities include Managed Detection and Response (MDR), Endpoint Coverage Gaps, SIEM Coverage Gaps, MITRE ATT&CK Mitigation Recommendations, Risk Assessments with industry peer benchmarking, Risk Register, and more.

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    As Part of Critical Start Vulnerability Management Service Enterprise

    Critical Start’s Vulnerability Management Service (VMS) is more than just vulnerability scanner licensing, setup, and configuration. You gain continuous operational monitoring, scheduled vulnerability scanning and analysis, break/fix identification and remediation, and a comprehensive list of patches for effective remediation that reduces risk. With the Enterprise agreement, you also gain the full capabilities of Critical Start Vulnerability Prioritization.

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