Application vulnerability management

Gen AI-driven prioritized recommendations to reduce MTTR of vulnerabilities

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CVSS-based approaches miss modern-day threats

Organizations are struggling to keep pace with an explosion of vulnerabilities — and the result is manual bottlenecks, delayed patches, and preventable breaches. Each Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) consumes valuable IT resources — from assessing priority and impact to identifying fixes, testing for downstream effects, and deploying patches. Traditional scoring systems like CVSS often compound the problem: they measure severity, not real-world risk. The result is wasted effort on low-impact issues while true threats linger, leaving critical systems exposed.

Growing vulnerability gap

The number of new CVEs has increased by more than 520% since 2016, overwhelming security teams.

Manual processes put security at risk

52% of organizations admit they are falling behind because they still rely on manual workflows.

Severity scores don’t equal risk

Traditional systems like CVSS measure technical severity, not real-world exploitability — wasting effort on the wrong issues while true threats linger.

Missed patches drive breaches

47% of vulnerabilities remain unpatched even 12 months after discovery — and 60% of breaches stem from flaws that already had available fixes.

Prioritize smarter. Remediate faster. Build securely with Concert.

IBM Concert transforms application vulnerability management with AI-powered automation and contextual risk intelligence, making remediation faster, smarter, and more cost-effective. Concert’s auto-patching capabilities cut median time to resolve critical CVEs by up to 90%1, while AI-driven prioritization ensures teams focus on the vulnerabilities that matter most. Its unified dashboards provide end-to-end visibility across applications, packages, and environments, and code-based auto-remediation brings security into the development workflow by enabling fixes directly in code before production.

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Unified vulnerability dashboard

Concert’s unified dashboard delivers real-time visibility into vulnerabilities across applications, containers, and infrastructure. AI-powered summaries highlight exposure trends and remediation progress, helping teams track risk and measure results with confidence.

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AI-powered insights and auto-patching

Concert generates AI-powered insights such as generate tailored remediation steps, attack vectors, and guidance so teams focus on the threats that matter most. Its auto-patching feature reduces median time to resolve critical CVEs by up to 90%1, cutting remediation from days to hours.

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OS auto-remediation with workflows

By streamlining vulnerability workflows, Concert helps organizations achieve up to 78% lower OS patching costs2 and a 90% reduction in risk exposure1.

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Software Composition Analysis (SCA)

Concert’s built-in SCA capabilities extend visibility into your SBOMs, CI/CD pipelines, and software packages, scanning open-source and third-party components for vulnerabilities, outdated libraries, and license compliance issues. AI-powered reliability checks assess the health of dependencies, helping teams choose trusted components and maintain compliance with global security and compliance standards.

A detailed IBM security dashboard showcasing vulnerability metrics
Unified vulnerability dashboard

Concert’s unified dashboard delivers real-time visibility into vulnerabilities across applications, containers, and infrastructure. AI-powered summaries highlight exposure trends and remediation progress, helping teams track risk and measure results with confidence.

A detailed view of IBM vulnerability dashboard, highlighting severity and impact
AI-powered insights and auto-patching

Concert generates AI-powered insights such as generate tailored remediation steps, attack vectors, and guidance so teams focus on the threats that matter most. Its auto-patching feature reduces median time to resolve critical CVEs by up to 90%1, cutting remediation from days to hours.

A digital dashboard displaying vulnerability data with metrics and statuses
OS auto-remediation with workflows

By streamlining vulnerability workflows, Concert helps organizations achieve up to 78% lower OS patching costs2 and a 90% reduction in risk exposure1.

A detailed dashboard showcasing software composition analysis by IBM
Software Composition Analysis (SCA)

Concert’s built-in SCA capabilities extend visibility into your SBOMs, CI/CD pipelines, and software packages, scanning open-source and third-party components for vulnerabilities, outdated libraries, and license compliance issues. AI-powered reliability checks assess the health of dependencies, helping teams choose trusted components and maintain compliance with global security and compliance standards.

Proven results

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Integrate and extend resilience
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Concert + IBM Instana™ Observability

Simplify application observability, resilience and risk management.  IBM Concert and Instana® integration streamlines resilience posture assessment by automating the collection of resilience data across a broad range of Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs). 

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IBM Concert for Z®

IBM Concert for Z is an AI-powered IT operations management hub purpose-built to simplify and modernize mainframe resilience.  Concert for Z delivers intelligent insights and automation that help teams act faster, reduce complexity, and maintain availability. 

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Concert + IBM Power® Infrastructure

Keeping IBM Power systems secure and up to date is often manual, slow and error-prone. IBM Concert for Power automates the entire patch and update lifecycle—reducing downtime, minimizing risk and boosting IT productivity.

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