Service Overview
The Dognet Technologies Vulnerability Management Service is a continuous and structured program for the identification, classification, prioritization and remediation of security vulnerabilities present in the technological assets of the organization—servers, workstations, applications, network devices, cloud assets. Unlike a single occasional vulnerability scan, a vulnerability management program is a cyclical process that ensures continuous visibility on the organization’s exposure level and demonstrates measurable improvement of safety posture over time.
Management Vulnerability
The absence of a structured program of vulnerability management is one of the most popular gaps in Italian SMEs: according to our analysis, more than 65% of companies with less than 250 employees have never carried out a systematic scan of their infrastructure. This means that critical vulnerabilities with publicly available exploits remain present for months or years, offering attackers banally exploitable compromise vectors.
Program Components
The program consists of four integrated functional components. Asset Discovery and Inventory: continuous identification and cataloguing of all technological assets—including shadow IT, unmanaged devices and cloud assets—to ensure that no system remains outside the program coverage. An uninvented asset is an uncontrolled asset, and therefore a potential invisible door.
Vulnerability Scanning: programmed scans with frequency adapted to the risk profile (week for critical assets exposed, monthly for internal infrastructure, every release for web applications) with professional tools such as Nessus, OpenVAS/Greenbone, Qualys or the SentinelCore module for SME environments. Authenticated scans provide a significantly higher visibility than unencrypted scans, identifying configuration vulnerabilities and outdated software that cannot be detected from the outside.
Risk-Based Prioritization: the volume of vulnerabilities identified in a medium-sized infrastructure makes it impossible for immediate remediation of everything. Prioritization based on real risk—integrating CVSS severity, exploitability (EPSS score), asset exposure, business criticality and presence of working exploits—allows the IT team to focus resources on vulnerabilities that represent the greatest risk, not simply those with the highest CVSS score.
Remediation Tracking and Reporting: structured workflow of vulnerability assignment to managers, tracking of remediation status with SLA differentiated for severity, managing exceptions with justification and expiry date, and periodic KPIs showing improvement of safety posture over time—essential for management, customers and NIS2 requirements.
Integration with SentinelCore
For customers who adopt Dognet Technologies' SentinelCore platform, the vulnerability management program is natively integrated with the scanning module, MicroSIEM for event correlation and Intellidog module for threat intelligence enrichment—that contextualizes any vulnerability with information about active exploits in the wild, TTPs of groups that exploit it and related compromise indicators.
Regulations
A structured programme of vulnerability management is explicitly required by NIS2 (art. 21, risk management measures), PCI-DSS (Requirements 6 and 11), ISO 27001 (Annex A 8.8), and ENISA guidelines for the security of networks and information systems. The Dognet Technologies service produces documentation required to demonstrate compliance with these frameworks during internal and external audits.
Deliverable
Monthly report of vulnerability status with trend, KPI remediation, active exceptions and open critical vulnerabilities; updated operational dashboards in real time; support for patch window planning; and reporting for management with residual risk exposure and progression over time.
