VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT
Vulnerability Management: A Clean Scan Isn't Zero Risk
Your VM scanner reported zero CVEs. That doesn't mean zero risk — it checks installed software against known vulnerabilities, but never opens the compiled software underneath.
NetRise adds evidence your VM program can't get elsewhere: CVEs and non-CVE risk from an accurate SBOM of the compiled software you run — including dependencies no scanner enumerates.
Learn moreThe Challenge
Your Scanner Checks the Install List. It Never Opens the Software.
Vulnerability scanners discover the software a system has installed — versions, running services — and match it against vulnerability feeds. But CVEs, secrets, and other artifacts land in the compiled image itself, beneath that layer, where a scanner never looks.
Where Scanner-Reported Evidence Stops Short
OS & network scanners
Discover a device's installed components and match them to known CVEs, but never unpack the compiled binaries inside devices and appliances — so embedded components stay invisible.
Source SBOMs
Describe what developers intended to ship; if not updated with every build, they decay and can't be checked against the shipped binary.
CPE-based CVE matching
Where a vendor has no CPE entries, CPE-based matching returns nothing for that product — even for known, decade-old CVEs — so a component the scanner never enumerated also can't be matched.
CVE-only prioritization
Ranks by CVSS and patch status, blind to whether a component is reachable or whether an artifact carries non-CVE risk (secrets, keys, misconfigurations).
With NetRise
Evidence Across the Vulnerability Lifecycle
Build a component inventory from the binary image itself. NetRise analyzes the compiled firmware, appliance, and application artifacts you run and identifies the components inside — including the statically linked and embedded dependencies no scanner enumerates, which is where known-exploited risk hides unseen.
Separate what's exposed from what's merely present. Execution-aware reachability filters findings to the components that actually execute on the device, so your team works the highest-priority vulnerabilities instead of every CVE in dormant components.
Catch the exposure that carries no CVE at all. NetRise surfaces hard-coded secrets, keys, certificates, and misconfigurations shipped inside the software — risk a CVE-based scanner will never flag.
When a vulnerability is disclosed, NetRise Provenance first determines which components are affected, then NetRIse Turbine confirms which of your assets actually contain them — so you scope exposure in minutes instead of tracing it by hand.
The Solution
Two Products. One Complete Answer.
NetRise Turbine® verifies what's inside the compiled software you run. NetRise Provenance® evaluates whether the open-source behind it can be trusted. Here's what each answers:
NetRise Turbine
Scanners match the software a system has installed against vulnerability feeds, including enriched threat intelligence. But they never open the compiled binary image — so a component a scanner never discovered can't be matched to any feed. Turbine unpacks the binary and builds the inventory from what actually shipped:
- Why the scanner missed it — A scanner checks a device's installed packages and vets them against vulnerability databases, but it doesn’t have a complete picture of what’s inside the package. Turbine unpacks the binary.
- Is it reachable? — Does a traceable execution path connects a running entry point to the affected component? With Turbine you can prioritize risk that can actually be reached and exploited.
- What non-CVE risk is present? — The secrets, public/private key pairs, and misconfigurations shipped in the artifact that a CVE scan never surfaces.
What that surfaces in real software:
- 2400+vulnerabilities in a brand-new XIoT switch a network scanner doesn't flag
- 6of them on the KEV list, all in the Linux kernel the device runs on — code the vendor shipped but didn't write
- 10how long one high-severity KEV kernel CVE has sat in a device sold as new
NetRise Provenance
Every vulnerable open-source dependency traces back to a project and the people who maintain it. When one turns risky, Provenance maps how far it reaches and whether the project behind it is still sound.
- How far does it reach? — When a package or contributor turns risky, which of your products and assets inherit the problem.
- Is the project still sound? — Whether the repository behind a component is actively maintained, quietly decaying, or abruptly updated after years of neglect.
- Can you trust the source? — The people and organizations behind the code, where they operate, and whether they're linked to known risk.
What Provenance maps across the supply chain:
- 3M+open-source repositories tracked
- 10M+packages indexed to their upstream sources
- 100M+components marked, with organization and geographic data
Vulnerability Management Results You Can Measure
See more, chase less — filter everything in the binary down to the findings that are actually reachable and exploitable.
Minutes, not weeks — scope which assets contain a disclosed vulnerability across analyzed artifacts.
86 of 116 priority findings closed by four upstream fixes in a federal deployment.
Non-CVE risk surfaced — secrets, key pairs, and misconfigurations a CVE-based scanner never flags.