Continuous vulnerability discovery, risk-based prioritisation, and remediation tracking - delivered as an operational programme, not a one-off scan.
Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management provides continuous vulnerability discovery and assessment with risk-based prioritisation and remediation guidance. Microsoft describes the service as using threat intelligence, breach likelihood predictions, business context, and device assessments to help prioritise the vulnerabilities that matter most and provide recommendations to mitigate risk.
LW IT Solutions delivers Defender Vulnerability Management as a vulnerability reduction programme. We enable and configure the platform, establish asset inventories and exposure baselines, define remediation workflow between security and IT, and build reporting that drives accountability. Where you need broader coverage, we scope and implement the Defender Vulnerability Management add-on or standalone subscription (as appropriate) and integrate outcomes into your security operations - so vulnerability reduction becomes measurable and repeatable.
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Service Overview
Highlights
- Readiness and licensing alignment: confirm whether you have core capabilities via Defender for Endpoint, and whether an add-on/standalone subscription is required for your goals
- Enable and configure Defender Vulnerability Management: onboarding, roles, and exposure baseline
- Asset inventory and coverage: establish inventories and validate platform coverage for your device/asset scope
- Risk-based prioritisation: focus remediation on vulnerabilities most likely to be exploited and most impactful to your business
- Remediation workflow: align SecOps and IT with a practical workflow (ownership, SLAs, exceptions, and evidence capture)
- Tracking and reporting: dashboards and cadence reporting for vulnerability exposure reduction over time
- Operationalisation: runbooks, governance cadence, and continuous improvement model
Business Benefits
- Reduce cyber risk faster by focusing on vulnerabilities with higher likelihood of exploitation and higher business impact
- Improve accountability by aligning security findings to IT remediation workflows and measurable SLAs
- Increase visibility through consolidated inventory and exposure baselines (depending on licensing scope)
- Strengthen audit/assurance readiness through documented workflows and evidence-friendly reporting
Typical use cases
- Organisations that need more than periodic vulnerability scans and want continuous exposure reduction
- Security teams struggling to prioritise patching and remediation due to volume and lack of context
- Post-incident programmes requiring structured vulnerability reduction and operational maturity
- Mature organisations aligning vulnerability management to SOC and governance reporting cadences
Objectives & deliverables
What Success Looks Like
- A configured Defender Vulnerability Management capability aligned to your asset scope and operating model
- A prioritised remediation backlog and workflow that secures results without creating operational friction
- Reporting that demonstrates measurable vulnerability exposure reduction over time
What You Get
- Vulnerability exposure baseline report (current posture, high-risk hotspots, and quick wins)
- Prioritised remediation backlog aligned to risk and business context
- Remediation workflow design (ownership, SLAs, exception governance, and evidence model)
- Operational runbooks and handover for ongoing vulnerability management
- Optional integration guidance with Defender portal and SOC workflows, and alignment to exposure management reporting where applicable
- Readiness and design pack (scope, licensing, onboarding approach, operating model)
- Configured platform with validated coverage and baseline exposure reporting
- Prioritised remediation backlog and workflow design (SLAs, owners, exceptions, evidence)
- Runbooks and handover session for continuous vulnerability management operation
- Governance cadence recommendations and optional optimisation support
How It Works
- Discovery and readiness - confirm goals, asset scope, current tooling, and licensing/feature availability.
- Enable and baseline - configure the platform, validate coverage, and establish an exposure baseline.
- Prioritise - create a risk-based remediation backlog aligned to exploitability and business impact.
- Operationalise - implement remediation workflow, ownership model, SLAs, and exception governance.
- Report and improve - establish reporting cadence and continuous improvement for exposure reduction.
Engagement Options
- Exposure Baseline Assessment (setup validation + baseline report + quick win backlog)
- Pilot Programme (priority asset group + remediation workflow + reporting cadence)
- Rollout Programme (broader coverage + full remediation operating model + dashboards)
- Operate (ongoing prioritisation support, reporting, and backlog management)
Additional Information
Prerequisites & licensing
Microsoft documents that Defender Vulnerability Management is available as an add-on for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Plan 2 or as a standalone subscription, and that Defender for Endpoint Plan 2 includes core vulnerability management capabilities. During discovery we confirm your licensing and target outcomes, then design the service accordingly.
- We confirm whether your intended asset scope and capabilities require the add-on or standalone subscription.
- We align onboarding and coverage to your device platforms and operational needs.
- We define governance for remediation SLAs, exceptions, and evidence to keep the programme defensible and sustainable.
Common Bundles
Customers who use this service often bundle with these services
Defender for Endpoint (EDR)
Deploy and operationalise Defender for Endpoint with phased onboarding, tuned policies, and clear triage workflows across managed device estates.
Secure Score Assessment & Remediation
Baseline Microsoft Secure Score, prioritise improvement actions, and deliver a staged remediation backlog that drives measurable security posture uplift.
Vendor to Microsoft Defender Migration
Migrate from third party EDR platforms to Microsoft Defender with phased rollout, parallel validation and controlled cutover approach.
Sentinel Deployment & Integration
Deploy Microsoft Sentinel with structured data onboarding, workspace design, RBAC, and detection content so your SOC operates effectively and predictably.
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