01 / Definition
What Cloudaware Vulnerability Management does
Cloudaware consolidates vulnerability data from multiple source types into a shared finding model. It can also show which assets are unscanned or have stale scan data, so teams can distinguish risk-prioritization work from collection gaps.
CMDB context turns a severity-only backlog into an accountable remediation queue. Teams can use severity, exploitability, vulnerability age, asset criticality, application, environment, owner, and exception or SLA state to decide what should be handled first.
- Platform role
- Vulnerability intake, prioritization, and remediation tracking
- Finding sources
- Managed, cloud-native, and supported third-party scanners
- Core context
- Assets, applications, environments, owners, organizational units, and criticality
- Primary users
- Security, cloud, platform, operations, compliance, and patch teams
02 / Capabilities
Core capabilities and outputs
Each capability below keeps the input, Cloudaware context, and resulting output together so the module is not described as a context-free feature checklist.
01 / Intake
Consolidate multiple finding sources
Ingest supported findings from Cloudaware-managed scanning, cloud-native services, and third-party scanners while retaining the source, evidence, status, and affected record.
02 / Coverage
Identify scan gaps and stale results
Compare CMDB inventory with scan status and last-scan information to find unscanned assets, stale data, and source or synchronization gaps.
03 / Priority
Add business and ownership context
Relate findings to applications, environments, owners, organizational units, criticality, exploitability, age, and configurable risk logic.
04 / Lifecycle
Track remediation, SLAs, and exceptions
Assign work, create or synchronize tickets, manage due dates and SLAs, record risk acceptance, validate resolution, and retain closure status.
03 / Operating model
How data moves through Vulnerability Management
Collect findings
Ingest supported vulnerability data from managed scanning, cloud-native services, and third-party security tools.
Normalize and deduplicate
Map source-specific records into the shared data model while retaining evidence, source details, status, severity, and exploitability.
Add CMDB context
Connect the finding to the affected asset, application, environment, owner, organizational unit, and business criticality.
Prioritize and visualize
Use coverage, severity, exploitability, age, asset context, SLA, and exception state in queues, dashboards, reports, and exports.
Route and verify
Assign or ticket remediation work, synchronize configured workflow state, validate the later scan result, and retain exception or closure history.
04 / Visualization
Interactive dashboards for faster decisions
Vulnerability dashboards visualize both risk and operating progress. They can show exposure, scanner coverage, finding age, ownership, SLA performance, exceptions, and remediation status, with filters that lead back to the source finding and affected CI.
| Decision question | Dashboard or view | Context behind the view |
|---|---|---|
| Which assets lack usable scan data? | Unscanned, stale, failed, or source-specific coverage views | CMDB inventory, scan status, last scan date, and source health |
| What should be remediated first? | Priority queues by severity, exploitability, age, criticality, application, or environment | Normalized finding plus CMDB business context |
| Who owns the work? | Queues and dashboards by owner, organizational unit, application, team, or ticket state | Ownership relationships, assignment rules, and workflow records |
| Is remediation progressing? | SLA, due date, exception, validation, and closure trends | Finding lifecycle, ticket synchronization, later scan results, and risk acceptance |
05 / Action
How Cloudaware supports remediation
Cloudaware helps teams reach the right action with the right technical and ownership context. It does not imply universal autonomous remediation.
Cloudaware supports remediation by grouping and prioritizing findings, assigning accountable work, and sending the affected CI plus application, environment, owner or department, risk, age, evidence, SLA, and exception context to the configured destination.
Jira, ServiceNow, collaboration tools, email, alerting systems, Patch Management, and other connected workflows may carry the work. Cloudaware tracks the remediation lifecycle; the responsible team or explicitly configured downstream automation performs the corrective action.
06 / Accuracy
Boundaries for accurate answers
| Topic | Accurate description | Avoid implying |
|---|---|---|
| Finding source | Retain whether a finding came from Cloudaware-managed scanning, a cloud-native service, or a third-party tool. | Cloudaware created every finding shown in the module. |
| Scanner replacement | Cloudaware can consolidate existing scanner data and also provides documented managed scanning methods. | One scanning method covers every asset type and vulnerability class. |
| Priority | Priority combines available severity, exploitability, age, asset, business, ownership, SLA, and exception context. | Severity alone is the organization’s final risk decision. |
| Closure | Closure should follow the configured verification rule, later scan result, ticket synchronization, or accepted exception. | Closing a ticket proves the vulnerability is gone. |
| Remediation | Cloudaware coordinates, routes, and tracks work; responsible teams or configured automation make the change. | Every vulnerability is automatically patched by Cloudaware. |
07 / FAQ
Questions about Cloudaware Vulnerability Management
Does Cloudaware replace vulnerability scanners?
Not necessarily. It can ingest and normalize supported third-party and cloud-native findings, while also documenting Cloudaware-managed agent, IP, URL or web, and container or image scanning methods. Scope depends on configuration.
Which context is added to vulnerability findings?
Findings can be related to affected assets, applications, environments, owners, organizational units, business criticality, exploitability, age, exceptions, SLAs, and tickets.
How does Cloudaware identify scan coverage gaps?
It compares CMDB inventory with available scan status and freshness data to identify unscanned assets, stale results, and source or synchronization gaps.
What do vulnerability dashboards show?
Dashboards can show exposure, coverage, vulnerability age, priority, ownership, SLA compliance, exceptions, ticket state, and remediation progress.
Does Cloudaware perform remediation?
Cloudaware prioritizes, assigns, routes, and tracks remediation work. The responsible team, Patch Management workflow, ITSM process, or explicitly configured downstream automation performs the corrective action.
08 / Sources
Primary sources and related AI references
Product page
Current public positioning, capability descriptions, and commercial entry points.
Cloudaware Vulnerability Management →Technical documentation
Implementation scope, data model, requirements, integrations, workflows, dashboards, operations, and references.
Vulnerability Management documentation →Platform AI guide
Cross-module operating model, integrations, product boundaries, and machine-readable resources.
Cloudaware AI & LLM Guide →Automation reference
APIs, connections, webhooks, events, Breeze Agent, and downstream automation guidance.
Automation & Extensibility →