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# Vulnerability Management

Detect, prioritize and remediate vulnerabilities from code to cloud.  
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WHY IT MATTERSOUR APPROACHCAPABILITIES

* [WHY IT MATTERS](#why)
* [OUR APPROACH](#approach)
* [CAPABILITIES](#modules)  
  {#why}

## Every time a new security vulnerability surfaces, attackers race to find the vulnerable application to exploit its weakness. Organizations need a faster and easier way to uncover blind spots and prioritize vulnerabilities across applications in the cloud.

### Inadequate visibility into cloud vulnerabilities.

Security and development teams don't have visibility into vulnerabilities across their entire cloud estate and have difficulty understanding which resources the vulnerability affects.

### Lack of risk context.

Not all vulnerabilities are created equal---some pose a significantly higher risk due to multiple risk factors, making it difficult to prioritize risk.

### Inefficient remediation.

Security and development teams often have complex workflows to find the root cause of vulnerability, the appropriate fix and the application owner, making remediation more complex than it should be.

## Manage and Prioritize Vulnerabilities from Code to Cloud

Cortex^®^ Cloud helps to uncover blind spots, prioritize vulnerabilities with context and manage remediation across your applications (VMs, Containers, Kubernetes^®^, serverless and open-source software).

* Code to Cloud vulnerability management
* Support for public and private cloud deployments
* Agentless scanning and agent-based protection
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  {#approach} SOLUTION

## Our approach to vulnerability management

### Code to Cloud Visibility

Securing cloud-native applications requires a comprehensive view into vulnerabilities across the application lifecycle. Cortex Cloud delivers a centralized view into vulnerabilities across public cloud, private cloud and on-premises environments for every host, container and serverless function.

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#### Code to cloud visibility

Gain visibility into all vulnerabilities across your environment --- source packages, git repos, registries, deployed images, hosts and running applications.
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#### Flexible deployment options.

Gain visibility into vulnerability across virtual machines, containers, kubernetes and serverless functions with agents and agentless scanning.100% continuous coverage for any application in any cloud environment.
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#### Manage risk from a single UI.

Visualize risk across host OS, container images and serverless functions with intelligent risk scoring.  
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### Contextual, Risk-Based Prioritization

Reduce alert fatigue and surface the vulnerabilities that should be prioritized. Correlate vulnerabilities with multiple risk factors, including external exposure, excessive permissions, misconfigurations, sensitive data and malware.

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#### Attack path context

Focus on vulnerable resources containing additional risks such as internet exposures, excessive permissions, sensitive data access and more, so you can shut down potential attack paths and lateral movement risks.
\*

#### Consolidate vulnerability alerts

AI-driven detections transform numerous issues into a minimal number of fully contextualized risks. For example, Cortex Cloud correlates dozens of CVE instances caused by a single base image or package.
\*

#### Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

Prioritize vulnerabilities with the help of EPSS scores.
\*

#### Find the root cause

Trace vulnerabilities back to the source code files and packages that led to the vulnerable workloads.  
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### Remediate \& Prevent Vulnerabilities

Take action against vulnerabilities with a systematic and proactive approach---before they can be exploited by malicious actors .

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#### AI and Automation-driven remediation

AI-based recommendations provide the optimal remediation, potentially addressing several vulnerabilities with a single fix. Built-in playbooks automate workflows and accelerate alert resolution.
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#### See vulnerability status with remediation guidance

View every CVE with details and up-to-date vendor fix information, supporting all cloud-native technologies.
\*

#### Alert on or prevent vulnerabilities across environments.

Set precise policies to alert on or prevent vulnerable components from running on your environments.
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#### Prevent critical vulnerabilities

Integrate with developer repos and tooling, submit pull requests to fix vulnerable packages, and block unwanted vulnerabilities in the pipeline.  
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{#modules}

## Additional Cloud Posture Security capabilities

### AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM)

Gain visibility and control over models, GenAI and the AI supply chain. Stop new attack vectors before they materialize.  
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### Data Security Posture Management (DSPM)

Discover, classify and protect data in cloud environments. Prevent exfiltration and compliance violations.  
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### Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management

Cortex Cloud gives you control over permissions across multicloud environments  
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### Cloud Security Posture Management

Remove your most critical risk across public and multicloud environments with Cortex Cloud  
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