Understanding the most critical vulnerabilities and using that information to match with the right remediation steps is a constant challenge for today’s organizations. They lack visibility of their attack surface, are usually guessing to prioritize vulnerabilities using antiquated methods like CVSS and fall short with the proper remediation steps. Functionally, security teams are tasked with identifying and prioritizing those vulnerability insights and IT operations are responsible for remediating the affected assets. To be effective in reducing cyber risk, these disparate teams need to work in unison. But, they constantly find themselves out of sync, sometimes resorting to inefficient collaboration methods such as email or spreadsheets that lack the proper remediation steps. Even IT ticketing systems fall short as they lack the ‘last mile’ when it comes to the actual remediation process. The result of these fragmented, manual steps requires a lot of time and resources to keep up with remediation efforts. IT never has the time to be up to date with the most relevant findings that security sends them. This drives the need to optimize remediation workflows by combining the proper security context with automated patch management to tackle vulnerabilities that pose the greatest risk to the business.