Alberta · Vulnerability Management

Vulnerability Management for Alberta Businesses

Not a scan that finds problems and leaves them on a list for someone to get to eventually. Every device and system checked for unpatched security holes, and fixed proactively — closing the gap before an attacker finds it first.

What It Actually Is

A patch that exists and a patch that's actually installed are two different things.

Software vendors release security fixes constantly. A fix sitting released but not applied doesn't protect anything — it's just a known hole with a known solution nobody's used yet. Vulnerability management is the ongoing work of finding every unpatched hole across your devices and systems, and actually closing it, instead of leaving it on a list for whenever someone has time.

Not every hole is equally urgent, so not every hole gets treated the same way. Vulnerabilities that are already being actively used by attackers get fixed first — not whatever happens to be oldest on the list. Coverage spans operating systems, common business applications, and firmware across every device on the network, re-checked continuously as new vulnerabilities are published, which happens at a pace no manual process keeps up with.

60%
Had a Patch Available
of breaches involved a known vulnerability where a fix already existed — it just hadn't been applied yet
5 Days
Median Time to Exploit
how long attackers typically take to start using a newly disclosed vulnerability once it's public
55 Days
Average Time to Patch
how long the average business takes to actually fix a high or critical vulnerability — the gap this closes

Sources: Verizon 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report; Mandiant M-Trends 2026; Edgescan 2026 Vulnerability Statistics Report.

Why This Actually Works

The average business takes roughly 11 times longer to patch a hole than an attacker takes to walk through it.

Five days versus fifty-five isn't a rounding error — it's weeks of a publicly known, fixable hole sitting open on a real business's systems. That gap is where most of the actual damage happens, and it's not hypothetical: the majority of breaches that start with a known vulnerability had a working patch available the whole time.

Closing that gap means not waiting for a scheduled ticket or a quarterly review. The moment a vulnerability that's actively being exploited elsewhere is identified on your systems, it gets prioritized immediately — so the fifty-five day industry average isn't what your business is actually exposed to.

The Jargon, Decoded

Terms you might see, translated.

What the industry calls itWhat it actually meansWhy it matters to you
CVEA catalogued, numbered vulnerabilityThe ID assigned every time a new security hole is publicly identified — how it gets tracked and referenced industry-wide.
Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)A hole already being used by attackersNot theoretical risk — this list tracks vulnerabilities already active in real attacks, which is exactly why these get fixed first, not last.
Patch CadenceHow often fixes actually get appliedA patch that's released but not installed protects nothing. This is what turns "a fix exists" into "the fix is running on your systems."
RemediationActually closing the holeNot just knowing a vulnerability exists — the step where it's patched, reconfigured, or otherwise fixed so it can't be used anymore.

How It Actually Runs

The process, start to finish.

1

Every device gets checked, continuously

Operating systems, common business applications, and firmware are scanned on an ongoing basis — not a once-a-quarter audit.

2

Actively exploited holes get fixed first

Priority is based on whether attackers are already using a vulnerability elsewhere, not just how old it is on a list.

3

Patches get applied, not just flagged

Fixes are proactively pushed and confirmed as actually installed — the gap between finding and fixing is the whole point.

Included, Not Upsold

Vulnerability management is in every LogosCyber plan.

This isn't a feature you have to upgrade to get. Every plan gets the same proactive scanning and patching — the only choice across tiers is your Cork Cyber financial warranty level, not whether known holes actually get closed.

Common Questions

What business owners ask before signing up.

“Won't patching break something that's currently working?”

That risk is managed, not ignored.

Patches are staged and tested before wide rollout rather than pushed blind. The goal is closing a real hole without creating a new outage in the process.

“How do you decide what gets patched first?”

By whether it's already being used, not just its age.

A vulnerability that's actively being exploited elsewhere jumps ahead of one that's simply old on a list. Real attacker activity drives priority, not a fixed schedule.

“Does this cover the software we actually use, not just the operating system?”

Yes — applications and firmware too.

Coverage spans operating systems, the business applications running on your devices, and firmware — not just Windows or macOS updates.

“We already have someone who handles updates sometimes — how is this different?”

Continuous and prioritized, not "when there's time."

This runs on an ongoing basis and prioritizes by real attacker activity, instead of competing with other IT tickets for whenever someone gets around to it.

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