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Defender Vulnerability Management identifies endpoint weaknesses and connects them to device, threat, and business context so security and IT teams can prioritize and track remediation.

The built-in sensor continuously discovers software, vulnerabilities, and configuration weaknesses without periodic network scanning. Prioritization combines exploit activity, active breaches, device value, sensitive data, application runtime, and organizational context.

The Vulnerability Management area includes the dashboard, recommendations, remediation activities, inventories, weaknesses, and event timeline. Core MDE Plan 2 capabilities include discovery, inventories, vulnerability and configuration assessment, risk-based prioritization, remediation tracking, continuous monitoring, and software assessment; add-on or standalone licensing adds capabilities such as security baselines, browser-extension and certificate assessment, vulnerable-application blocking, and network-share analysis.

Create remediation activities from security recommendations, assign them to the appropriate IT workflow, define due dates and priority, and monitor status. When a patch is unavailable, use alternate mitigations such as configuration changes, feature restrictions, or compensating controls.

Validate completion through updated device telemetry and decreasing exposure rather than relying only on a ticket status.

Know how continuous sensor data, threat intelligence, device importance, recommendations, Intune/IT tasks, and remediation tracking form a risk-based vulnerability-management workflow.

Prioritize what is exploitable and important now, coordinate remediation with IT, apply compensating controls where necessary, and verify exposure reduction continuously.