Microsoft DefenderDefender Vulnerability Management
Risk-based vulnerability management with continuous discovery and prioritisation.
Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management continuously discovers, assesses, and prioritises vulnerabilities and misconfigurations across endpoints — using real-time threat intelligence and asset context to focus remediation on the risks that matter. It covers software, firmware, browser extensions, certificates, and more. Faltrox operates it as managed vulnerability management.
Overview
What Defender Vulnerability Management is
There are far more vulnerabilities than any team can patch, and severity alone is a poor guide to what actually matters. Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management takes a risk-based approach: it continuously discovers vulnerabilities and misconfigurations across the estate and prioritises them using real-time threat intelligence, exploit activity, and asset context.
It provides continuous, agent-based and agentless asset discovery and inventory, assessment of software, firmware, browser extensions, certificates, network shares, and more, security baselines assessment, and risk-based prioritisation that surfaces the vulnerabilities attackers are actually exploiting. Built into Defender for Endpoint and available standalone, it drives measurable risk reduction. Faltrox operates it — ingesting the findings, prioritising by risk, and driving remediation as managed vulnerability management.
Coverage
What it protects
The platforms, threats, and surfaces this product is built to defend.
Endpoint Vulnerabilities
Continuously discovers software, OS, and configuration vulnerabilities.
Broad Asset Coverage
Assesses firmware, browser extensions, certificates, and network shares.
Risk-Based Prioritisation
Prioritises vulnerabilities by real-world threat and exploit activity.
Security Baselines
Assesses configuration against security baselines and best practice.
Threat Intelligence
Uses Microsoft threat intelligence to focus on actively exploited weaknesses.
Remediation Tracking
Tracks remediation and measurable risk reduction over time.
How it works
The mechanism
How the product moves from signal to protected state, step by step.
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Discover
Continuous, agent-based and agentless discovery inventories assets and their vulnerabilities.
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Assess
It assesses software, firmware, extensions, certificates, and configuration against baselines.
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Prioritise
Risk-based scoring uses threat intelligence and exploit activity to surface what matters.
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Remediate
It drives and tracks remediation, integrated with Intune and endpoint management.
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Operate
Faltrox prioritises findings by risk and drives remediation as managed vulnerability management.
Capabilities
Key capabilities
Continuous Discovery
Agent-based and agentless discovery of assets and their vulnerabilities.
Risk-Based Prioritisation
Prioritises by real-world threat and exploit activity, not just severity.
Broad Asset Assessment
Assesses software, firmware, browser extensions, certificates, and network shares.
Security Baselines
Assesses configuration against security baselines and best practice.
Threat-Intelligence Context
Uses Microsoft threat intelligence to focus on actively exploited weaknesses.
Remediation Integration
Integrates with Intune and endpoint management to drive and track remediation.
Defender XDR Integration
Part of Defender for Endpoint and correlated across Defender XDR.
Measurable Risk Reduction
Tracks exposure and remediation to demonstrate measurable risk reduction.
Works with
Part of the platform
Microsoft products this pairs with, and the Faltrox services that operate it.
Delivery
You buy the outcome, not the console
Managed by Faltrox
Faltrox licenses, deploys, and tunes Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management for your environment, then runs it as part of a managed service, so you get the protection without staffing another security console.
FAQ
Common questions
01How is this different from a vulnerability scanner?
It continuously discovers and assesses vulnerabilities across the estate and prioritises them by real-world threat and exploit activity, not just severity — so you fix the small share attackers actually exploit. It also covers firmware, extensions, certificates, and configuration, not just software CVEs.
02Why prioritise by threat intelligence rather than severity?
Because severity over-flags — many "critical" vulnerabilities are never exploited. Risk-based prioritisation uses threat intelligence and exploit activity to focus remediation on the vulnerabilities that genuinely reduce breach likelihood, so limited capacity goes where it matters.
03What can it assess beyond software?
Firmware, browser extensions, digital certificates, network shares, and security-baseline configuration — a broader view of exposure than software-CVE-only scanning.
04Does it help drive remediation?
Yes — it integrates with Microsoft Intune and endpoint management to drive and track remediation, and reports measurable risk reduction over time. Faltrox operates that remediation with your teams.
05How does Faltrox operate it?
We run continuous discovery, prioritise findings by real risk, and drive remediation with your IT teams — delivering managed, risk-based vulnerability management integrated with the rest of your Microsoft defence.
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Secure what’s next.
Speak with the engineering team to define scope, walk through the methodology, and decide whether Faltrox is the right team to test and run your environment.
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