Vulnerability Management Services
Vulnerability management is the continuous cycle of discovering, prioritising, remediating, and verifying vulnerabilities across your estate, rather than a single point-in-time scan. Precursor delivers it as a managed service: continuous external scanning via EdgeProtect, human-verified triage with CVSS and EPSS prioritisation, clear remediation guidance, and verification that fixes worked, from £300 per month.
Vulnerability management is the continuous cycle of discovering, prioritising, remediating, and verifying vulnerabilities across your estate. Precursor delivers it as a managed service: continuous external scanning, human-verified triage with CVSS and EPSS prioritisation, remediation guidance, and verification, from £300 per month.
What is vulnerability management?
Discover, prioritise, remediate, verify: run as a managed programme, not a one-off scan.
Vulnerability management is the continuous cycle of discovering, prioritising, remediating, and verifying vulnerabilities across your estate. Precursor delivers it as a managed service: continuous external scanning via EdgeProtect, human-verified triage with CVSS and EPSS prioritisation, clear remediation guidance, and verification that fixes worked, from £300 per month.
If you are trying to work out whether you need scanning, management, or a penetration test, see our vulnerability scanning vs penetration testing guide, or our roundup of the best vulnerability scanning services in the UK.
Discover. Prioritise. Remediate. Verify.
Vulnerability management is a cycle, not a single event. Each stage feeds the next, and the cycle repeats on every scan.
Find what is exposed, continuously.
Continuous external scanning through EdgeProtect maps your internet-facing footprint on a regular schedule: exposed services, vulnerable and outdated software, misconfigurations, and DNS weaknesses, so new exposures are found as they appear rather than at the next annual test.
Rank by real exploitation risk.
Every finding is triaged by a human analyst and scored using CVSS alongside EPSS, so effort goes towards vulnerabilities attackers are actually using rather than a flat severity list.
Clear guidance, not a raw dump.
False positives are removed before a finding reaches you, and each confirmed vulnerability comes with remediation guidance your team can act on directly.
Confirm the fix worked.
Continuous scanning through EdgeProtect re-checks previously flagged exposures, so remediation is confirmed rather than assumed, and the cycle starts again with the next scan.
What the managed service includes.
A raw scan output is a list. A managed vulnerability management programme is a triaged, prioritised, and actioned workflow. This is what runs behind the £300 per month starting price.
Three different jobs.
Scanning, management, and penetration testing sit on the same continuum but answer different questions. Most compliance-driven organisations need all three.
Automated tool output.
A vulnerability scan is raw automated output: a list of known CVEs and misconfigurations flagged by software. It runs continuously or monthly, but the false positives and prioritisation are left to your team.
The managed programme.
Vulnerability management is the discipline built around scan output: continuous scanning, human-verified triage, CVSS and EPSS prioritisation, and remediation guidance, delivered as an ongoing service rather than a one-off list.
Manual exploitation.
Penetration testing is a manual, expert-led exercise that chains findings into real attack scenarios, finding logic flaws scanners cannot detect by design. It satisfies the specific testing clause named by ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and DORA.
For the full breakdown of automated scanning versus manual exploitation, including UK cost benchmarks and compliance clause mapping, see our vulnerability scanning vs penetration testing guide, or scope a test directly through the penetration testing hub.
From £300 per month.
Managed vulnerability management for a UK mid-market organisation typically runs from £300 to £800 per month, depending on asset count and reporting frequency. Continuous scanning, human triage, and reporting are all included in that fee: there is no separate scanning tool licence to negotiate. A finding significant enough to warrant exploitation testing can escalate into a scoped penetration test, priced separately after a free scoping call.
One stage in a closed loop.
EdgeProtect discovers what is exposed. Vulnerability management turns that discovery into a triaged, prioritised, and remediated backlog. Critical findings escalate into a scoped penetration test to prove real-world impact, and our Managed SOC watches for active exploitation in between. Each service does one job well, and they hand off to each other rather than overlap.
Stop triaging scanner output yourself.
Tell us your asset count and current scanning setup, if you have one. We will send back a fixed monthly quote for continuous scanning, human triage, and remediation guidance within five working days.
Vulnerability management: common questions.
Pricing, prioritisation, and how vulnerability management fits alongside scanning and penetration testing.
Vulnerability management is the continuous cycle of discovering, prioritising, remediating, and verifying vulnerabilities across your estate, rather than a single point-in-time scan. Precursor delivers it as a managed service: continuous external scanning, human-verified triage with CVSS and EPSS prioritisation, clear remediation guidance, and verification that fixes worked, from £300 per month.
A vulnerability scan is raw automated tool output: a list of known CVEs and misconfigurations flagged by software, often including false positives your team has to triage themselves. Vulnerability management is the wider managed programme built around that scan output: continuous scanning through EdgeProtect, human-verified triage that strips out false positives before they reach you, CVSS and EPSS prioritisation, and remediation guidance, so what lands in your inbox is already actioned rather than raw.
Managed vulnerability management for a UK mid-market organisation typically runs from £300 to £800 per month, depending on asset count and reporting frequency. Precursor publishes its managed vulnerability assessment rate from £300 per month, with continuous scanning, human triage, and reporting all included in that fee: there is no separate scanning tool licence to negotiate.
Findings are prioritised using CVSS alongside EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) rather than left as a raw severity list, so remediation effort goes towards what attackers are actually likely to exploit rather than a theoretical worst case. Vulnerabilities known to be actively exploited in the wild are surfaced first, ahead of findings that score highly on CVSS but carry no real-world exploitation activity.
Yes. Vulnerability management and penetration testing do different jobs. Vulnerability management finds and helps you fix known CVEs and misconfigurations on a continuous basis. Penetration testing is a manual, expert-led exercise that finds logic flaws and chained exploits automated tools cannot detect by design, and it is the specific requirement named by standards such as ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and DORA. A finding from your vulnerability management programme that is significant enough to warrant exploitation testing can escalate directly into a scoped penetration test, priced separately.