AI Vulnerability Management in the UK

CyberSecurity · United Kingdom

AI vulnerability management in the UK from 4hosting runs continuous scanning across your servers and containers, then prioritises what actually needs fixing first using EPSS exploitation likelihood, CISA KEV known-exploited status and reachability analysis — instead of handing you a scanner report ranked only by CVSS severity. Included CyberSecurity hours cover remediation, and you get a monthly report tracking what changed.

  • Continuous scanning, not a quarterly point-in-time snapshot
  • Prioritised by EPSS and CISA KEV, not CVSS alone
  • Monthly reports with remediation status tracked over time
  • Continuous, across servers and containers
    Scanning
  • 1–8 h/month on VPS; 5–10 h/month on dedicated servers depending on the plan; 10 h/month on GPU servers
    Included hours
  • Monthly report with remediation status
    Reporting
  • EUR, with UK VAT (20%) itemised on the invoice
    Billing
01

Why CVSS alone leads teams astray

A CVSS score reflects theoretical severity, not the probability that a given vulnerability is being exploited right now, or whether it's even reachable from your actual attack surface. A team that fixes CVSS-9 findings in order can spend weeks on issues nobody is exploiting while a lower-scored, actively-exploited vulnerability sits unpatched. We prioritise instead by EPSS score, CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities listing, and whether the affected asset is actually reachable given your network topology.

  • EPSS score: statistical likelihood of exploitation in the near term
  • CISA KEV: vulnerabilities confirmed as actively exploited
  • Reachability analysis: is the affected asset actually exposed
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How AI is used on both sides here

Attackers increasingly automate scanning of public IP ranges to find unpatched, known-vulnerable software within hours of a CVE's disclosure, which is what makes reactive, infrequent scanning inadequate. On the defence side, we use AI-based prioritisation models to rank the flood of findings a continuous scanner produces down to the handful that combine high exploitability, active exploitation and real reachability — the ones worth an engineer's time this week.

03

Continuous inventory and virtual patching

Vulnerability management only works against a current asset inventory: we track what's actually running across your servers and containers, not a list that goes stale after the next deployment. Where a fix can't be deployed immediately, virtual patching at the WAF level blocks known exploitation patterns for a given CVE while the underlying update is scheduled through your normal release process.

  • Continuous asset inventory across servers and containers
  • Virtual patching bridges the gap before a permanent fix ships
  • Remediation SLAs tied to severity and exploitation status
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Where the included hours go

Remediation work draws on the CyberSecurity hours already in your plan: 1–8 hours a month on VPS, 5–10 on dedicated servers depending on the plan, 10 on GPU servers, from Advanced upward on cPanel. You request scanning setup or a focused remediation push from the client panel, propose a deadline for the highest-priority items, and we deliver against it. Hours do not roll over into the following month, so we recommend planning larger remediation pushes deliberately rather than letting a backlog build up; work beyond the monthly quota is still accepted, billed separately.

How we work

  1. Request from the panel

    Open a request under Services describing which servers or containers you want under continuous scanning.

  2. Build the asset inventory

    We inventory what's actually running, set up continuous scanning, and confirm the included hours the setup will use.

  3. Prioritise by real risk

    Findings are ranked by EPSS, CISA KEV status and reachability, and the highest-priority items go into a remediation plan.

  4. Remediate and report

    We patch or virtually patch where relevant, and you receive a monthly report tracking status against the previous month.

Use cases

SaaS platform with a large dependency tree

A UK SaaS vendor with dozens of third-party libraries gets continuous scanning that surfaces the handful of dependencies with actively exploited CVEs, instead of a weekly list of hundreds of theoretical findings.

Agency managing multiple client environments

A digital agency running several client VPS instances gets one consolidated monthly report across all environments, prioritised so remediation time goes to genuinely exploitable issues first.

Fintech vendor answering supplier security reviews

A fintech vendor needs to show a partner evidence of an active vulnerability management process with tracked remediation, not a one-off scan result from months earlier.

Technology stack

  • Trivy
  • Grype
  • OpenVAS
  • EPSS
  • CISA KEV
  • Nuclei
  • Syft

Every subscription includes monthly DevOps, CyberSecurity and Programming hours: 1 h from the cPanel Advanced plan up, 1–8 h on VPS, 5–10 h on dedicated servers depending on the plan, and 10 h on GPU servers. Hours are requested from your client panel, don't roll over to the next month, and anything above the quota is accepted and billed separately.

Frequently asked questions

  • What's the difference between vulnerability scanning and vulnerability management?

    Scanning produces a list of findings. Management is the ongoing process around it: prioritisation, remediation SLAs, tracking status over time and reporting. A scan alone tells you what's wrong; management is what actually gets it fixed and keeps it fixed.

  • Why prioritise by EPSS instead of just CVSS?

    CVSS measures theoretical severity if exploited; EPSS estimates the real-world probability a vulnerability will actually be exploited in the near term. A high-CVSS finding with low EPSS may be low real risk, while a mid-CVSS finding on the CISA KEV list is being actively exploited right now — EPSS and KEV point remediation effort at what matters.

  • How often does scanning run?

    Continuously, not on a fixed monthly or quarterly schedule. New vulnerabilities disclosed against software you're running get flagged as they become known, rather than waiting for the next scheduled scan window.

  • What is virtual patching and when is it used?

    It's a WAF-level rule that blocks known exploitation patterns for a specific CVE before the underlying software update has been deployed. It buys time to schedule the real fix through your normal release process without leaving the vulnerability openly exploitable in the meantime.

  • Do you scan third-party dependencies, not just our own code?

    Yes — scanning covers the full software stack running on your servers and containers, including third-party libraries and base container images, since a large share of exploited vulnerabilities sit in dependencies rather than first-party code.

  • What does the monthly report actually show?

    It tracks open findings by priority tier, what was remediated since the last report, and any new high-priority items from the current month, so you can see the trend rather than just a snapshot.

Want vulnerability prioritisation that reflects real risk?

Tell us what's in scope and we'll set up continuous scanning using your included CyberSecurity hours.

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