Best Free Risk-Based Vulnerability Management Software

RealCISO helps teams prioritize remediation by business risk, not raw severity counts. Gaps, findings, and weaknesses link to the assets, controls, and risks they affect, then Cleo, its AI engine, ranks every open item by its real impact on your security score. What-if simulation projects the improvement from each fix, so limited time goes to the actions that reduce the most exposure. Remediation planning, ownership, evidence, and progress tracking stay in one workflow, with reporting that shows leadership and auditors how risk is trending down. It complements your scanners by turning their output into prioritized, defensible action. Used by 3,000+ organizations.

Criminal IP Threat Intelligence enables organizations to prioritize vulnerabilities based on real-world exposure and threat activity. By combining internet-wide reconnaissance data with threat intelligence, the platform helps security teams identify assets that are actively exposed, associated with malicious activity, or likely to be targeted by attackers. This risk-based approach allows organizations to focus remediation efforts on the vulnerabilities that present the greatest business and security impact, improving vulnerability management efficiency and reducing overall cyber risk.

Splunk Enterprise is a powerful platform that turns data into actionable insights across security, IT, and business operations. It enables organizations to search, analyze, and visualize data from virtually any source, providing a unified view across edge, cloud, and hybrid environments. With real-time monitoring, alerts, and dashboards, teams can detect issues quickly and act decisively. Splunk AI and machine learning features predict problems before they happen, improving resilience and decision-making. The platform scales to handle terabytes of data and integrates with thousands of apps, making it a flexible solution for enterprises of all sizes. Trusted by leading organizations worldwide, Splunk helps teams move from visibility to action.

Scan networks, servers, and websites for security risks. Manage your risks via dashboards, reporting, and alerts. Build scheduled vulnerability management into your information security practice. When a new port is open, or a new risk is detected, automatically alert your team. Cut out the noise. Only new or unexpected risks are alerted. Add targets, run scans, and get results programmatically. Embed HostedScan into your own products and services.

ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus is an enterprise vulnerability management solution that continuously detects, prioritizes, and remediates security risks across desktops, servers, and network devices from a single console. AI-powered threat intelligence assigns risk scores based on CVSS severity, exploit availability, and active attack trends so teams focus on what matters most. Built-in patch management automates deployment across Windows, macOS, Linux, and 1,500+ third-party applications at no additional cost, with pre-built scripts for zero-day vulnerabilities providing immediate protection while vendor patches are awaited. Security configuration management audits firewalls, antivirus, BitLocker encryption, and password policies, while web server hardening validates SSL certificates and HTTPS enablement. Compliance automation audits against CIS, NIST, and UK Cyber Essentials with detailed remediation guidance for every violation.

RankedRight transforms the way vulnerability management programs are run by putting users' risk appetite first. Providing a single enlightened view of their vulnerabilities, we give teams all the information they need to instantly see, manage and take action on the risks most critical to their business. With RankedRight, security teams have the power and clarity to take control of their vulnerability management efforts and make a measurable difference to their security posture. How it works: 1. You upload all of your vulnerability data from different scanning solutions into the platform. 2. RankedRight normalises your data and enriches it with the latest vulnerability intelligence. 3. Whether your priority is the number of public exploits or the asset criticality, you build rules that fit your risk appetite. 4. RankedRight delegates prioritised tasks to your remediation teams to action.

MetaDefender layers an array of market-leading technologies to protect critical IT and OT environments and shrinks the overall attack surface by detecting and preventing sophisticated known and unknown file-borne threats like advanced evasive malware, zero-day attacks, APTs (advanced persistent threats), and more. MetaDefender easily integrates with existing cybersecurity solutions at every layer of your organization’s infrastructure. With flexible deployment options purpose-built for your specific use case, MetaDefender ensures files entering, being stored on, and exiting your environment are safe—from the plant floor to the cloud. This solution uses a range of technologies to help your organization develop a comprehensive threat prevention strategy. MetaDefender protects organizations from advanced cybersecurity threats in data that originates from a variety of sources, such as web, email, portable media devices, and endpoints.

At Vulcan Cyber we’re changing the way businesses reduce cyber risk through vulnerability remediation orchestration. We help IT security teams go beyond remedial vulnerability management to help them drive vulnerability remediation outcomes. The Vulcan platform consolidates vulnerability and asset data, with threat intelligence and customizable risk parameters to deliver risk-based vulnerability prioritization insights. But we don't stop there. Vulcan remediation intelligence takes the vulnerabilities that matter to your business and attaches the remedies and fixes needed to mitigate the threat. Then Vulcan orchestrates and measures the rest of the remediation process with integrations and inputs into application security, DevSecOps, patch management, configuration management, and cloud security tools, teams and functions. From scan to fix, Vulcan Cyber delivers the unique ability to orchestrate the entire vulnerability remediation process to GET FIX DONE at scale.

Global organizations trust TuxCare for live patching their critical Linux hosts and OT devices across their hybrid multi-cloud environments. No reboot is required to deploy and enable the TuxCare KernelCare Enterprise solutions to live patch Linux kernels and critical system libraries, including OpenSSL and Glibc. In contrast, all hosts and devices maintain the current production level uptime while receiving all security updates. TuxCare automates the patching process and eliminates the need to wait weeks or months for reboot cycles to apply patches. TuxCare currently protects over 1 million workloads worldwide. Tight integrations with popular patch management and vulnerability scanners, including Qualys, Crowdstrike, and Rapid7, enable TuxCare to fit seamlessly into existing infrastructure. The TuxCare secure patch server, ePortal, allows operations in gated and air-gapped environments. Reduce risk by significantly reducing the mean time to patch vulnerabilities

RiskProfiler offers a comprehensive suite of products for Continuous Threat Exposure Management, addressing an organization's external attack surface. These include the Cyber RiskProfiler for cyber risk ratings, Recon RiskProfiler for External Attack Surface Management (EASM) capabilities, Cloud RiskProfiler for Cloud Attack Surface Management (CASM) that identifies actually exposed cloud resources and prioritizes risks, and Brand RiskProfiler for brand protection. Recon RiskProfiler is an advanced EASM and CASM solution with robust integrations across major cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. It delivers comprehensive visibility into external cloud resources, enabling efficient identification, assessment, and management of vulnerabilities and risks. Vendor RiskProfiler is a comprehensive Cyber Risk and Vendor Risk Management solution that delivers company cyber risk ratings while enabling efficient sending, receiving, and validation of third-party vendor security.

Automated risk assessments tuned to match your risk appetite. Get the intimate risk performance assessments you need to efficiently manage your third-party risk. RiskRecon’s deep transparency and risk contextualized insights enable you to understand the risk performance of each vendor. RiskRecon’s workflow enables you to easily engage your vendors to realize good risk outcomes. RiskRecon knows a lot about your systems. Know what RiskRecon knows. Get continuous objective visibility of your entire internet risk surface, spanning managed, shadow and forgotten IT. RiskRecon knows a lot about your systems. Know what RiskRecon knows. Get continuous objective visibility of your entire internet risk surface, spanning managed, shadow and forgotten IT. See the intimate details of every system, the detailed IT profile and security configuration. We’ll even show you the data types at risk in every system. RiskRecon’s asset attribution is independently certified to 99.1% accuracy.

A tidal wave of vulnerabilities, but you can’t fix them all. Rely on extensive threat intel and patented prioritization to cut costs, save time, and keep your teams efficiently focused on reducing the biggest risks to your business. This is Modern Risk-Based Vulnerability Management. We created Risk-Based Vulnerability Management software and now we’re defining the modern model. Show your security and IT teams which infrastructure vulnerabilities they should remediate, when. Our latest version reveals exploitability can be measured, and accurately measuring exploitability can help you minimize it. Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) combines real-world threat and exploit intelligence and advanced data science to determine which vulnerabilities pose the highest risk and which you can deprioritize. Spoiler alert: Your mega-list of “critical vulnerabilities” will shrink faster than a woolen sweater-vest in a hot cycle.