Top 10 Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (VM) Tools for 2022

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Contents What are risk-based vulnerability management tools? 8 Key Vulnerability Management Software Features in 2022 Top 10 Risk-Based Vulnerability Management Tools

Risk-based vulnerability management (VM) tools provide IT security teams with a continuous, automated ability to identify, prioritize, and remediate cyber vulnerabilities based on the relative risk they pose to a specific organization.

According to NIST, vulnerability management is an "information security continuous monitoring (ISCM) capability that identifies vulnerabilities [Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs)] on devices that may be used by attackers to compromise a device and use it as a platform from which to extend the compromise to the network.

With so many vulnerabilities present in large, complex, and interconnected IT environments, organizations can hardly implement all software patches and other fixes in a timely manner, if at all.

A complex triage process that quickly identifies and escalates the vulnerabilities that pose the greatest risk in an organization's particular circumstances is required. This requires automated tools with machine learning (ML) capabilities. Leading vulnerability management software vendors are adapting by integrating risk-based solutions into their products.

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These vendors include both larger vendors that offer risk-based VMs as modules within larger cyber platforms (e.g., for cloud security and/or expanded detection and response terminals/endpoints) and VM specialists.

Gartner has projected the risk-based VM market segment to reach $639 million by 2022. Other analyst firms have estimated that the broader VM market, depending on how it is defined, would have surpassed the $2 billion mark during this period. IDC estimated the appliance-based virtual machine market to be $1.7 billion in 2020, growing at a rate of 16% per year to reach approximately $2.2 billion in 2022.

See also: What is Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (VM)?

Since the IDC made its 2020 growth estimate, analyst firms have changed their terminology and focus. Some combine security information and event management (SIEM) and vulnerability management. Others have broadened the scope of vulnerability management and invented t...