VulnCheck

Over the year and a half that I have been dealing with VulnCheck , I have also worked with numerous similar solutions. I know the market and understand the similarities and what VulnCheck  can do, what it cannot, and what other competitors offer within the field.

Essentially, what we are looking to accomplish with VulnCheck is to enable organizations to view vulnerabilities that exist within the cybersecurity landscape. I am taking this to partners to then sell to their customers, but their customers are simply looking for a way to sift through thousands of CVEs or new vulnerabilities. Traditional tools will just give you a long list. VulnCheck is an exploit intelligence platform that takes all that mass of information and then provides you with a clear view of the major vulnerabilities that need attention.

A partner or customer has used VulnCheck to take a load of CVE scores or vulnerability scores and then identify which ones are dangerous in the real world. It essentially indicates if a bug is dangerous, shows you how hackers are getting in, and where the attacks are coming from. This is facilitated by the IP intelligence feature, which gives contextualized data that matters because, at the end of the day, it can indicate how quickly a business can be breached or compromised. The core idea is simple, as it examines all different vulnerabilities and provides context to which ones have been found and how they can breach your organization.

I am focused on enterprise security teams and government critical national infrastructure, all collating data. What VulnCheck does is based on real-life exploitability and is continuously updated with intelligence to focus on what really matters. It does not generate a long list full of noise and is a very proactive solution.

In my opinion, the best feature of VulnCheck is the vulnerability intelligence piece, which enriches vulnerability data beyond just standard databases. It provides context regarding the validity of exploit availability and the attacker's activity. Essentially, it can answer the question: Is this bug dangerous? Could it breach us in a real-world attack? Another valuable feature is the IP intelligence, which identifies attackers' infrastructure, specifically the command and control servers, showing where the attacks are originating from.

Our customers and partners typically use the IP intelligence feature by employing AI and ML to find, connect, and prioritize signals indicating that a vulnerability is being exploited. It is not a single model; it is a pipeline of data collection with enrichment and scoring, and I also utilize AI extraction. This is where AI kicks in to highlight what is vulnerable, providing a kind of correlation.

I would probably say that the main feature of VulnCheck is its ability to cut down all the noise and provide a scoring of how you are going to get attacked and breached. It then utilizes intelligence to show you where the attacker is located.

VulnCheck needs improvement in terms of data. It is primarily an intelligence and data layering system and not a complete vulnerability management platform. This means that it lacks native patch workflows, so you do not have asset discovery as you would with Tenable or Qualys. You will require other tools to act on the data that you find, which necessitates engineering time for API integration, data mapping, and tuning. Additionally, not all exploit signs are clear; some can be noisy or ambiguous, so teams need to apply their judgment. Finally, the time to value is not instant; it requires integration, workflow changes, and team training.

I think VulnCheck is an excellent tool and valuable data resource. However, if you wish to send alerts via an API to platforms like Rapid7 or Tenable VM, you will need to integrate that with a SIEM  solution to perform any kind of risk management.

I have been doing my current job for just over a few months, and I have been working in this space during that time as well, working with partners and delivering solutions that they can then sell to their customers or end users.

Although I do not have the exact numbers for VulnCheck, I can categorize the ROI into three buckets: preventing breaches, which is the most significant value; faster detection, which translates to real savings; and operational efficiency, which is often hidden but represents a real ROI. The average breach costs around five million, and incidents can be stopped by monitoring vulnerabilities on a daily basis. VulnCheck detects exploitable vulnerabilities days to weeks earlier than alternatives, with customer detection averaging just under six and a half days sooner than most competing products, resulting in an estimated $145,000 risk avoided per incident and about $700,000 risk avoided.

VulnCheck has shifted the mindset within my organization and my partners from a reactive to a more proactive approach. By contextualizing vulnerabilities and understanding how people get breached, VulnCheck gives us the ability to adopt a proactive mindset rather than a reactive one. More often than not, a reactive approach leads to responding to breaches instead of being on top of vulnerability management.

I would definitely recommend looking into VulnCheck as a solution.

I think it is a really good tool to find vulnerabilities and help identify what is exploitable within your infrastructure. However, if you are seeking something to manage or take action on your vulnerabilities, you will still need a vulnerability management tool or a SIEM  solution to facilitate any actions. Overall, it is an easy-to-use tool that provides simple ways to view risks without much noise.