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October 22, 2025 — Tel Aviv, Israel: Pentera has launched Pentera Resolve, a new remediation management platform designed to close the long-standing “remediation gap” — the space between identifying vulnerabilities and actually fixing them. The solution integrates validated attack data, automation, and workflow orchestration to help enterprises move from exposure awareness to proven remediation.
The Remediation Gap Explained
In most organizations, detection isn’t the issue — execution is. Multiple systems such as vulnerability scanners, SIEMs, CSPMs, and XDR tools generate thousands of alerts daily. Yet, according to Pentera’s research across 1,200 customers, these alerts often remain unresolved due to fragmented workflows, unclear ownership, and missing validation steps.
The result: critical vulnerabilities stay open far longer than acceptable. While detection tools continue to evolve, most companies still depend on manual spreadsheets and disconnected ticketing systems to track fixes — a method unfit for modern cyber risk management.
The Data Behind the Problem
Recent industry findings highlight how severe the remediation backlog has become:
- 90 % of security teams report excessive alert volume as their top remediation challenge.
- 82 % of organizations admit they struggle to validate whether reported vulnerabilities are actually remediated.
- Less than 20 % use structured risk models like EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) or the CISA KEV List, even though such frameworks improve prioritization accuracy by over 95 %.
- On average, enterprises take 38 days to remediate a high-severity finding, leaving ample time for exploitation.
These numbers underline that visibility alone doesn’t equal security. Without consistent, validated remediation, detection data simply accumulates risk.
A New Approach: Operationalizing Remediation
Pentera Resolve automates the full lifecycle — from validated exposure to confirmed resolution. It integrates directly with ServiceNow, Jira, Slack, and other ITSM tools, assigning remediation tasks to the right team based on asset ownership, severity, and business impact.
Key features include:
- Automated triage and prioritization based on exploitability and exposure context.
- Asset-aware workflows that link vulnerabilities to system owners for faster accountability.
- Proof-of-fix validation, automatically verifying that the vulnerability is resolved.
- Unified reporting dashboards, consolidating exposure, remediation progress, and compliance metrics.
Early adopters reported up to a 90 % reduction in manual remediation coordination tasks and an average 40 % decrease in mean time to remediate (MTTR) compared to traditional workflows.
Best Practices for Closing the Gap
- Map your remediation workflow: Identify all stages from detection to validation and remove manual steps.
- Prioritize by exploitability: Focus first on high-impact, actively exploitable issues.
- Automate task routing: Use integrated ticketing to assign, track, and close fixes automatically.
- Track outcomes, not output: Measure success by validated fixes, not by number of alerts processed.
- Validate continuously: Re-test after remediation to ensure that vulnerabilities are actually closed.
Conclusion
The cybersecurity industry has invested heavily in detection and exposure management — yet breaches persist because remediation lags behind. Bridging this operational gap means unifying detection, prioritization, and validation under one workflow. Solutions like Pentera Resolve demonstrate that when automation and accountability align, security teams can finally translate detection into verified defence.
References
- Bridging the Remediation Gap: Introducing Pentera Resolve – The Hacker News (Oct 22 2025)
- Pentera Resolve Product Overview – Pentera.io
- 2025 Remediation Operations Report – Seemplicity.io
- From Findings to Fixes – PlexTrac Research (Oct 2025)
- Reducing Mean Time to Remediate – Enterprise Times (Jul 2025)
