Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management identifies, assesses, prioritizes, and remediates vulnerabilities across an organization's IT environment. It provides continuous asset discovery and monitoring through agent-based or agentless scanning for endpoints, mobile devices, servers, cloud workloads, network devices, browser extensions, digital certificates, and firmware components. The system uses Microsoft's threat intelligence feed combined with machine learning models to calculate breach likelihood scores while considering business context factors. It features real-time vulnerability detection, risk-based prioritization algorithms, automated security baseline assessments, application blocking policies, authenticated credential scanning, hardware vulnerability detection, and network share configuration analysis. The solution includes remediation workflows with ServiceNow/Jira integration, patch management guidance, and configuration change templates. It integrates with Microsoft Defender XDR ecosystem components and can function as a standalone product compatible with third-party EDR solutions through API-based data ingestion.
