Automating vulnerability management
In modern application environments, the same vulnerable package can appear across multiple container images, application versions, and deployment environments. Before teams can respond, they need to understand where each vulnerability exists, which applications are affected, and how urgently each issue must be addressed.
For example, a banking team might discover a high-priority CVE in an open source package used by a customer-facing payments application. The same package might also be used in internal services or lower-risk test environments. The team needs to know whether the CVE affects production, which application versions are impacted, whether sensitive financial data is involved, and which remediation work must be prioritized first.
Why automation matters
Vulnerability response often requires coordination across security, development, platform, and operations teams. DevSecOps and vulnerability management teams need to identify and prioritize high-risk CVEs. Application owners need to understand which services and versions are affected. Platform engineering teams need runtime context to support remediation. CISOs, CIOs, and auditors need visibility into remediation progress and overall risk posture.
Manual investigation can slow down response when findings are spread across images, packages, repositories, applications, and environments. Automating parts of the vulnerability management workflow helps teams reduce repeated manual checks, route findings into remediation work, and respond to high-risk vulnerabilities more consistently.
How Concert helps
- Discover runtime applications, images, dependencies, and environment data.
- Scan discovered images for CVEs.
- Prioritize findings by using the Concert risk score.
- Investigate CVEs across affected applications, packages, and environments.
- Review AI-generated remediation guidance.
- Create tickets in connected issue tracking systems.
- Track remediation progress and changes in risk posture.
Vulnerability management workflow
This use case follows vulnerability findings through the response workflow. CVEs are associated with the applications, environments, images, packages, and resources that they affect. Findings can then be prioritized by risk, investigated for impact, routed into remediation work, and tracked as remediation progresses.
For example, after the banking team discovers a CVE in the payments application, Concert helps the team move from discovery to action. The team can see which application versions are affected, compare the CVE across production and non production environments, review the blast radius, generate remediation guidance, open a ticket, and track whether the remediation work is progressing.
The following topics show how each part of this workflow supports vulnerability management, from discovering runtime data to monitoring resolution status.