After this lesson, you will be able to: Build the components of a continuous vulnerability management program, including useful metrics.
A program isn't just 'we run scans.' It's the people, processes, and metrics that turn raw scan data into measurable risk reduction. This lesson covers what to track and how to integrate vulnerability management into modern DevOps pipelines.
Mean time to remediate (MTTR), average days from CVE disclosure to patched. Coverage, % of assets being scanned regularly. Critical/High aging, count of critical CVEs older than 30 days. Reopen rate, % of vulnerabilities that come back after being closed (often a misconfiguration regression). Track trends, not raw numbers.
Modern teams catch vulnerabilities before deploy: SAST scans code on commit, SCA scans dependencies, container image scans block builds with vulnerable base images. This is dramatically cheaper than finding the same flaws in production a year later.
PCI-DSS requires regular vulnerability scanning. HIPAA expects 'reasonable safeguards' that include patching. ISO 27001 requires a documented vulnerability management process. Building one program that meets the strictest framework usually satisfies the rest.
Choose the best one.
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