With over 187,000 security vulnerabilities currently registered in the National Vulnerability Database NVD with an average 61 new vulnerabilities added every day – organizations can't realistically remediate every potential threat to their systems.

Enter: risk–based patch management.

One of the most effective approaches to risk mitigation, risk–based patch management goes beyond basic Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS scores and scanners to identify and qualify the specific vulnerabilities that pose the most significant risk to an organization's devices, data and end users.