Veracode Risk Manager Case Study: Resolving Vulnerability Overload for a North American Financial Firm

Veracode Risk Manager Case Study: Resolving Vulnerability Overload for a North American Financial Firm A leading financial firm was drowning in over 600,000 active CVEs from multiple scanning tools. Learn how Veracode Risk Manager (VRM) unified their security data and enabled a 100-to-1 reduction in actionable issues, allowing them to focus on what matters most.

The Challenge: Drowning in Disconnected Data

The company’s security team was inundated with vulnerability data from a suite of disconnected tools, including Qualys, Prisma, and Defender. While these solutions provided extensive information, the insights remained siloed. This fragmentation made it impossible to build a unified view of risk or establish a clear prioritization strategy.

With over 600,000 active CVEs, the team was left sorting through a massive volume of findings without a clear path to remediation. The lack of a centralized, actionable approach led to process delays, confusion, and a heightened risk of exposure.

The Solution: Clarity Through Unification

The company implemented Veracode Risk Manager to bring clarity and control to its vulnerability and cloud services management. Veracode Risk Manager (VRM) unified the data streams from all security tools into a single, coherent platform, providing a complete view of risk.
The platform’s powerful analysis capabilities enabled the security team to organize vulnerabilities into logical, actionable groups by:

• Integrating external threat intelligence, such as EPSS and the CISA KEV catalog, to add critical context.
• Applying issue factors, such as internet-facing exposure and remote exploitability, to identify the most critical threats.
• Segmenting issues by application team to drive accountability and streamline remediation.

This structured approach, combined with automatic ticketing synchronization, reduced process overhead and allowed teams to focus on fixing vulnerabilities, not managing administrative tasks.

The Results: A 100-to-1 Reduction in Noise

By unifying disparate data and enabling precise, contextual prioritization, Veracode Risk Manager empowered the organization to overcome its immense data challenge and streamline security operations.

• Centralized Risk Management: Veracode Risk Manager consolidated data from Qualys, Prisma, and Defender, creating a single source of truth for risk.
• Actionable Risk Reduction: The overwhelming volume of 600,000 CVEs and cloud issues was filtered down to 6,000 high-priority issues, enabling rapid and decisive action.
• Improved Team Effectiveness: With a clear focus on high-impact vulnerabilities, the team significantly reduced time spent on low-value tasks and accelerated risk reduction.