Vulnerability Assessment & Management — Continuous, Risk-Prioritised
Over 29,000 CVEs were published last year and the average time to exploitation has dropped to 15 days. Without continuous vulnerability assessment and systematic remediation, your attack surface grows faster than your team can patch — leaving dangerous gaps attackers actively scan for every day.
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What is Vulnerability Assessment & Management?
Vulnerability Assessment and Management is a continuous security process that identifies, classifies, risk-prioritises, and tracks the remediation of software and configuration vulnerabilities across an organisation's infrastructure, cloud, and container environments.
Why You Need Continuous Vulnerability Management
New vulnerabilities are published daily — over 29,000 CVEs in 2023, up 15% year over year, and the trend is accelerating. The average time from vulnerability disclosure to active exploitation has dropped from 45 days to just 15 days, and for critical vulnerabilities with public exploits it is often hours. Without continuous vulnerability assessment and management, your attack surface grows faster than your team can patch. Point-in-time assessments become outdated within weeks, leaving dangerous gaps that attackers actively scan for. Opsio's vulnerability management service provides continuous automated scanning using industry-leading tools — Qualys VMDR, Tenable Nessus and Tenable.io for infrastructure; AWS Inspector, Azure Defender, and GCP Security Command Center for cloud workloads; and Trivy, Grype, and Snyk for container images and open-source dependencies. Our multi-tool approach ensures complete coverage across servers, endpoints, cloud configurations, containers, and applications.
Without a managed vulnerability assessment programme, organisations accumulate thousands of unpatched vulnerabilities with no clear way to prioritise them. Security teams waste time on low-risk findings while critical exploitable vulnerabilities sit in remediation backlogs for months. The result is compliance audit failures, increased breach risk, and security teams drowning in scan data instead of reducing actual risk.
Every Opsio vulnerability management engagement includes continuous automated scanning across your full asset inventory, risk-based prioritisation using CVSS scores combined with CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) data and asset criticality, assigned remediation owners with defined SLAs by severity, progress tracking dashboards, automated escalation workflows, and compliance-ready reporting mapped to your regulatory frameworks.
Common vulnerability management challenges we solve: scan data overload where teams receive thousands of findings with no clear priority, remediation backlogs where critical vulnerabilities sit unfixed for months, incomplete asset coverage where shadow IT and cloud resources go unscanned, container vulnerabilities in CI/CD pipelines reaching production, and compliance reporting that requires manual spreadsheet work instead of automated dashboards.
Following vulnerability management best practices, our initial assessment evaluates your current scanning coverage, prioritisation methodology, remediation SLA performance, and compliance gaps. We use proven vulnerability assessment tools — Qualys, Tenable, AWS Inspector, Trivy — selected for your specific environment. Whether you are building a vulnerability management programme from scratch or scaling an existing one, Opsio delivers the operational expertise to transform raw scan data into systematic risk reduction. Wondering about vulnerability assessment cost or whether to build in-house versus engage managed services? Our assessment provides a clear answer with a tailored programme design.
How We Compare
| Capability | DIY / Ad-hoc Scanning | Generic MSSP | Opsio Managed VM |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scanning coverage | Partial, manual setup | Single tool | ✅ Multi-tool, full asset coverage |
| Risk prioritisation | Raw CVSS only | Basic severity filtering | ✅ CVSS + KEV + EPSS + business context |
| Remediation tracking | Spreadsheets | Ticket creation only | ✅ Full lifecycle with SLA enforcement |
| Container scanning | None or manual | Basic | ✅ CI/CD integrated with Trivy/Grype |
| Compliance reporting | Manual | Generic reports | ✅ Multi-framework mapped dashboards |
| Remediation support | Your team only | Guidance only | ✅ Direct remediation for managed infra |
| Typical annual cost | $50-100K (tools + 1 FTE) | $30-60K (scanning only) | $24-96K (fully managed) |
What We Deliver
Continuous Vulnerability Scanning
Automated vulnerability assessment of infrastructure, applications, containers, and cloud configurations using Qualys VMDR, Tenable.io, AWS Inspector, Azure Defender, and GCP SCC. Scans run continuously or on defined schedules with automatic asset discovery ensuring nothing goes unscanned — including ephemeral cloud resources and container workloads.
Risk-Based Prioritisation
Not all vulnerabilities are equal. Our vulnerability management process prioritises using CVSS v3.1 base and environmental scores, CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog data, EPSS exploit prediction scoring, asset criticality classifications, and network exposure analysis — focusing remediation effort on what actually poses business risk.
Remediation Tracking & SLA Management
Assigned remediation owners, defined SLAs by severity (critical: 48h, high: 7d, medium: 30d, low: 90d), progress tracking dashboards, automated escalation workflows, and management notifications. Our vulnerability management ensures findings do not linger in backlogs — with clear accountability from detection through verified closure.
Cloud Configuration Assessment
Continuous vulnerability assessment of AWS, Azure, and GCP configurations against CIS benchmarks using cloud-native tools. Detect IAM misconfigurations, unencrypted storage, publicly exposed services, overly permissive security groups, and insecure defaults across your entire multi-cloud estate with automated remediation for critical findings.
Container & Image Scanning
Scan Docker images and running containers for known vulnerabilities using Trivy, Grype, and Snyk integrated directly into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins). Block vulnerable images from deployment, track base image freshness, and monitor running containers for newly discovered CVEs post-deployment.
Compliance Reporting & Dashboards
Automated vulnerability management reports mapped to ISO 27001 Annex A.8.8, NIS2 vulnerability handling, NIST SP 800-40, PCI DSS Requirement 6 and 11, and SOC 2 CC7.1 with audit-ready evidence packages, trend dashboards, and executive summaries showing risk posture improvements over time.
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“Opsio's focus on security in the architecture setup is crucial for us. By blending innovation, agility, and a stable managed cloud service, they provided us with the foundation we needed to further develop our business. We are grateful for our IT partner, Opsio.”
Jenny Boman
CIO, Opus Bilprovning
Investment Overview
Transparent pricing. No hidden fees. Scope-based quotes.
Initial Assessment
$5,000–$12,000
One-time baseline
Continuous Scanning & Management
$2,000–$8,000/mo
Ongoing operations
Remediation Support
$3,000–$10,000/mo
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