RISK BASED VM

Risk-Based Vulnerability Management tools for 2024

Pallavi Vishwakarma
April 2, 2024

Companies are always looking for ways to increase the security of their systems since hackers can take advantage of even the slightest weakness. For this reason, organizations deploy Risk-Based Vulnerability Management Tools, which enable continuous, automated identification, prioritization, and remediation of cyber-based vulnerabilities in accordance with the relative risk they pose to a particular organization for IT security teams.

let's take a look at some of the most reliable risk-based vulnerability management tools you can purchase for your company.

1. SecOps Solution

SecOps solution website

SecOps Solution is a full-stack cybersecurity assessment platform. It identifies the top 1% of security risks that could have the maximum impact on the organization, thereby saving millions of dollars and hundreds of hours of engineering effort in patchwork and remediation. It is an AI-powered agent-less platform for Vulnerability Management and remediating misconfigurations in applications and the cloud. SecOps configures and starts protecting your assets - within seconds not days.

Key Features:

  • Vulnerability Management
  • Web App Security
  • Mobile App Security
  • Compliance
  • Container Security
  • DevSecOps Integration

It also integrates with other business tools like Slack and email apps to improve vulnerability scanning. Moreover, the solution provides IT admins with context-based security assessments to reduce cyber incidents and false positives.

The main advantage of SecOps is that you don’t have to buy any additional scanners that you may have to buy for tools like Nucleus security. It's a one-stop shop for vulnerability management.

Best for MSME, Series A, and Series B startups

Cost: You can request a quote from their website

Link: https://secopsolution.com/

2. Qualys VMDR

Qualys website

Qualys VMDR (Vulnerability Management, Detection, and Response) automatically locates and inventories all hardware and software assets wherever they may be in an environment. This cloud-based application continuously evaluates vulnerabilities and applies threat intelligence to prioritize and resolve actively exploited issues.

Key Features:

  • Analyzes systems in real-time
  • It continuously assesses IT assets for vulnerabilities to maintain the security of the system.
  • By receiving real-time notifications, you may react to hazards before they develop into serious problems.

Best for large Enterprises 

Cost: You can request a quote from their website

Link: https://www.qualys.com/

3. Arctic Wolf

Arctic Wolf website

Arctic Wolf Managed Risk assists businesses in finding, evaluating, and fortifying environments against digital dangers. Across networks, endpoints, and the cloud, it contextualizes attack surface coverage.

Key Features

  • In-depth asset inventory (hardware, software, location attributes), dynamic classification, risk-based vulnerability assessment, and security controls benchmarking capabilities
  • Concierge Security Team™ (CST) prioritizes patch management strategy to help reduce risk
  • Broad security coverage from a single SOC-as-a-service platform, including proactive risk management and managed detection and response services

Best for businesses that want to hand off large portions of security management to external providers. 

Cost: MDR Basics (Monitor up to 100 users) $44,000 12 months

Link: https://arcticwolf.com/

4. Kenna Security

Kenna security website

Kenna Security’s risk-based vulnerability management solutions use real-time threat intelligence, data science, and predictive algorithms to effectively manage and prioritize risk across your entire enterprise—full-stack. It also offers significant integrations for a cross-platform environment and detailed reporting capabilities.

Key Features:

  • Precise, Metrics-Based Reporting
  • Full-Stack Risk Assessment
  • Data Agnostic
  • Ticketing System Integration

Best for Enterprise level environment

Cost: You can request a quote from their website

Link: https://www.kennasecurity.com/

5. Tenable.io

Tenable website

Tenable uses a risk-based vulnerability management strategy to identify and patch network, website, and web app vulnerabilities in your system. It gives you a complete image of your system's whole infrastructure from every angle, making sure that even the most elusive vulnerabilities are always found.

Key Features:

  • Identify and categorize flaws according to their severity
  • On a regular basis, cloud assets are inspected and evaluated.
  • Give specific details so that security issues can be quickly handled.

Best for Enterprises and independent security researchers can use the Nessus tool by Tenable.

Cost: Starting from $2275.00/Per-Year

Link: https://www.tenable.com/products/tenable-io

7. Rapid7 InsightVM

Rapid7 website

Rapid7 InsightVM is skilled in identifying and evaluating vulnerabilities throughout a whole infrastructure. By assessing vulnerabilities twice before reporting them, this small endpoint agent emphasizes addressing serious threats.

The remedy has the ability to automatically gather vital data about vulnerabilities, obtain fixes for found weaknesses, and deploy patches as and when a system administrator approves them.

Key Features:

  • Provides an assessment of Cloud and Virtual Infrastructure.
  • Offers easy-to-use RESTful API.
  • Reporting for Compliance and Remediation.

Best for Enterprises.

Cost: For 500 Assets, per Asset is $1.93/month

Link: https://www.rapid7.com/products/insightvm/

7. Frontline Vulnerability Manager

Frontline website

Digital Defense's Frontline Vulnerability Manager is a SaaS-based tool for managing vulnerabilities and threats. It consists of vulnerability detection and analysis, fingerprint-based scanning technologies, cross-context auditing, and other techniques. Those that already use that platform may find convenience and integration benefits as it is hosted on AWS.

Key Features:

  • Vulnerability Signature quality and coverage
  • Secure Configuration Assessment.
  • Cloud and Hypervisor Assessment support.
  • Reporting, Analysis, and Metrics

Best for large businesses

Cost: Frontline Advanced Vulnerability Management of 1 asset $144

Link: https://www.digitaldefense.com/platform/frontline-vm/

8. Nucleus

Nucleus website

Nucleus Security, a vulnerability and asset management system, organizations can address vulnerabilities 10 times more quickly and with a fraction of the resources needed today. A logical hierarchy is created by the Nucleus by combining, cleaning, correlating, and analyzing data from all sources of asset and vulnerability data. Using effective workflows and time-saving automation, Nucleus simplifies operational procedures after the data has been organized to quicken vulnerability management and response.

Key Features:

  • Vulnerability Management
  • Application Security
  • Automated Remediation
  • Contextualized Prioritization

Best for Large Enterprises and Medium Businesses

Cost: $11 per device per year

Link: https://nucleussec.com/

9. CrowdStrike Falcon

CrowdStrike website

CrowdStrike Falcon is an endpoint security virtual machine that runs in the cloud and maintains the entire network by protecting its perimeter and keeping an eye out for unusual activities. Numerous modules provided by the Falcon VM tool help to identify malware and dangers that are present in networks.

Key Features:

  • Automated assessment for vulnerabilities
  • Vulnerability and patching orchestration
  • Provides system administrators with comprehensive, easy-to-understand reports and real-time vulnerability detection.

Best for Large Enterprises

Cost: $2.49/month per endpoint

Link: https://go.crowdstrike.com/

10. Brinqa

Brinqa website

Brinqa employs cutting-edge strategies to assist clients in comprehending risk management, streamlining the management and analysis of security data, enhancing team communication, providing actionable insights, and automating risk mitigation. Adapting cybersecurity strategies and procedures to changing risk priorities, threat environments, and technology developments are made possible by Brinqa.

Key Features:

  • Recommendations for remediation based on risk intelligence
  • Connectors for IT service management that are effective with the newest features.
  • For the analysis and prioritization of vulnerability risk, threat intelligence streams are incorporated.

Best for Enterprises

Cost: You can request a quote from their website

Link: https://www.brinqa.com/

SecOps Solution is an award-winning agent-less Full-stack Vulnerability and Patch Management Platform that helps organizations identify, prioritize and remediate security vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in seconds.

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