Vulnerability Visibility & Prioritisation
Continuous host visibility that prioritises the vulnerabilities adversaries actually exploit.
Traditional vulnerability management generates 500-page PDF reports filled with low-risk theoretical flaws that overwhelm IT teams. ZIMA replaces scanning theatre with continuous, agent-based visibility weighted by active weaponisation and asset criticality.
Continuous Visibility vs. Periodic Blind Scanning
Why intermittent network vulnerability scans leave massive security blind spots, and how ZIMA solves this.
× LEGACY NETWORK SCANNERS
- • Point-in-Time Blindness: Scans run monthly or quarterly; any software installed in between remains completely invisible.
- • Network Overhead: Heavy network probes can trigger firewall rate limits, drop packets, or crash sensitive production devices.
- • Remote Worker Invisibility: Laptops off the corporate VPN are never scanned or inventoried.
- • Generic Scoring: Every CVE-7.5 is treated equally, regardless of whether public exploit code exists or whether the port is open to the internet.
✓ ZIMA CONTINUOUS VISIBILITY
- • Always-On Inventory: Lightweight in-situ telemetry sensors continuously catalog installed packages, kernels, and system libraries locally.
- • Zero Network Flooding: Vulnerability assessment occurs against known CVE databases centrally, with zero aggressive network probing.
- • Universal Fleet Coverage: Workstations are assessed wherever they connect—office, home, or traveling.
- • Contextual Prioritisation: Ranked by real-world CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV), public exploit availability, and asset exposure.
Contextual Vulnerability Prioritisation
We filter out the noise so your IT engineers can remediate the 5 vulnerabilities that actually pose a threat, instead of chasing 500 low-risk items.
Active Weaponisation
Is there working exploit code circulating in public repositories? Is the vulnerability currently cataloged in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) database?
Network Exposure
Is the vulnerable service bound to `0.0.0.0` and directly accessible from the public internet, or is it isolated on an internal loopback interface with no remote ingress?
Asset Importance
Does the affected machine house sensitive customer databases or act as an identity domain controller, or is it a non-critical lab workstation?
Compensating Controls
Are there existing behavioral detection rules, firewall rules, or application whitelisting policies in place that already block the known attack path?
How Vulnerability Data Directly Fuels Detection
At ZIMA, vulnerability data does not sit in a separate silo. It feeds directly into our active detection rules.
When a host contains an unpatched vulnerability that cannot be immediately rebooted or updated due to business constraints, ZIMA implements targeted detection rules on that specific host.
For example, if an internal Linux server runs an older OpenSSH version with a known privilege escalation flaw, our detection engineers configure behavioral decoders to monitor for specific process spawning patterns, unexpected user switches, or shell injections associated with that exploit.
This provides compensating operational defense until your team's scheduled maintenance window allows patching to occur.
Improve Your Vulnerability Visibility
Move from overwhelming scan reports to continuous, risk-ranked visibility across your workstations, servers, and cloud infrastructure.