What is Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (RBVM)?

What is Risk-Based Vulnerability Management?
Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (RBVM) is a strategic approach to identifying, prioritizing, and remediating security vulnerabilities across your IT and software environments. Unlike traditional vulnerability management, which often focuses solely on CVSS scores or static assessments, RBVM considers multiple dimensions of risk—such as asset value, business context, exploitability, and regulatory impact—to prioritize issues that are most likely to be exploited and most damaging if left unaddressed.

This is critical in modern environments where tools generate thousands of alerts, many of which are low-impact or duplicate findings. Without prioritization, security teams struggle to act effectively or efficiently.

How RBVM Works in PointGuard AI
PointGuard AI delivers a unified, risk-aware platform for vulnerability management—from code to cloud. It ingests findings from SAST, DAST, SCA, container scans, infrastructure tools, and CI/CD pipelines, consolidates them into a single risk engine, and drives intelligent action.

• Noise Reduction and Correlation
  PointGuard eliminates over 90% of redundant, false-positive, or low-priority alerts by aggregating and correlating findings across tools. This dramatically reduces analyst fatigue and helps teams stay focused on high-risk issues.
• AI-Driven Risk Prioritization
  The platform prioritizes vulnerabilities by combining traditional CVSS severity with real-world factors—like exploit availability, asset sensitivity, system exposure, and business importance. For example, a high-severity issue on a low-risk asset might be deprioritized in favor of a moderate issue affecting customer-facing systems.
• Threat Intelligence Integration
  PointGuard enriches findings with live threat feeds from EPSS, VulDB, CISA KEV, OWASP, and NVD to provide context on likelihood and urgency. This improves decision-making and keeps remediation aligned with current threat activity.
• End-to-End Remediation Automation
  The platform integrates natively with Jira, ServiceNow, Slack, and PagerDuty to automate ticketing, SLA tracking, and resolution workflows. Teams can respond faster and more accurately using rich context and predefined playbooks.
• Supply Chain Risk Context
  RBVM in PointGuard also accounts for third-party libraries, open-source dependencies, and application architectures. It visually maps findings to affected services, microservices, and cloud components—enabling precision at scale.
• Compliance and SLA Monitoring
  Continuous compliance tracking ensures teams meet regulatory obligations and internal security policies. Dashboards provide SLA visibility, incident timelines, and remediation status across departments.

Transforming Vulnerability Management
PointGuard’s RBVM solution gives organizations a clear, actionable view of security risk and allows teams to move from reactive patching to strategic defense. With integrated context, automation, and prioritization, it empowers DevSecOps and compliance teams to reduce exposure and respond with precision.

Explore the full solution at: www.pointguardai.com/vulnerability-management