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Five questions to ask any remediation vendor

Many tools find vulnerabilities. Few fix and prove them safely. Five questions that quickly separate reporting tools from remediation platforms.

The market is full of tools that find vulnerabilities. Far fewer help you fix them safely and prove it. When you evaluate a remediation platform, these five questions cut through quickly.

1. How do you decide what to fix first?

Look for prioritisation based on reachability, exploitability, business criticality and attack paths — not severity alone. Ask to see the reasoning for a specific ranking.

2. What do you actually deliver to the owner?

A ticket with advice, or a prepared, reviewable change — an upgraded dependency, rebuilt image or code change — delivered through existing pipelines?

3. How are changes approved and tested?

Can you set approval rules per environment? Is there pre-release regression testing? Can production changes require a named approver?

4. How do you prove a fix worked?

Ticket closure is not proof. Ask whether the platform re-scans to confirm closure and records every decision, approval and result in an audit-ready trail.

5. Where does our data go?

Can it run in your environment, with a local AI model if needed? Does it work alongside your existing tools rather than replacing them?

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We are happy to answer all five in a demo — on scenarios like yours, with the evidence trail on screen.

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