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Arctic Wolf Aurora Vulnerability Management
Your last scan found four thousand issues. The question is which forty get patched this month — Arctic Wolf Aurora Vulnerability Management scans your network from inside and from the internet, ranks what it finds by threat-based risk and sends the work to your service desk — with one-click patching if you add Resolve.
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The Arctic Wolf platform family
This page covers Arctic Wolf Aurora Vulnerability Management — the scanning and prioritisation product formerly called Managed Risk, with the Resolve patching add-on. The rest:
Quick facts
30-second orientation- Product
- Internal and external vulnerability scanning, asset inventory and threat-based ranking
- Formerly
- Arctic Wolf Managed Risk; its web address still reads /solutions/managed-risk/
- Maker
- Arctic Wolf Networks, Eden Prairie, Minnesota; private; CEO Nick Schneider since August 2021
- Family
- Grouped with Aurora Attack Surface Management as Aurora Exposure Management, May 2026
- Patching
- Resolve add-on: automated patch management, shown by Arctic Wolf as one-click patching
- Workflow
- ITSM integration plus AI-powered remediation guidance on each finding
- Price
- Not published; quoted alone or included in the Security Operations Plus and Total bundles
- Analysts
- No analyst placement for this product; Arctic Wolf’s IDC and Frost Leader awards are for MDR
- India
- No India data region documented; the Bengaluru centre is R&D, not a SOC or sales office
- In India via
- TechBag — asset scoping, bundle comparison, quote in INR with GST
Understand vulnerability management before you buy it
Most product pages skip this. We start here — so you buy a capability, not a buzzword.
What is vulnerability management?
A regular scan of every asset for weaknesses, then a ranked list of which ones to fix first.
An occasional scan and a spreadsheet vs Aurora Vulnerability Management — the honest table
What consolidation actually replaces, dimension by dimension.
| Dimension | An occasional scan and a spreadsheet | Arctic Wolf Aurora Vulnerability Management |
|---|---|---|
| When scans happen | Whenever one engineer finds a free week | Scheduled internal and external scans |
| How findings are ranked | By CVSS score, highest number first | By threat-based risk, with AI fix notes |
| Where fixes are tracked | A spreadsheet mailed to the IT team | Tickets raised through the ITSM integration |
| Applying the patch | By hand, machine by machine | One click, if you also buy Resolve |
| Exposure beside detection | Two vendors and two consoles | One Arctic Wolf contract, if MDR is there too |
| What it is NOT | — | A web-app scanner, a CSPM or a published price |
The cheapest test is one segment: run internal and external scans, send the top ten findings to your service desk and time how fast they close.
The five pieces of the platform
Vendors love diagrams; buyers need to know what they’re actually operating. Here’s the whole platform, demystified.
Scanning
Scans run against assets inside your network and against what faces the internet; Arctic Wolf does not spell out which jobs use a sensor and which use an agent.
Inventory
Each scan feeds an inventory of the assets it found, and the product flags misconfigurations next to missing patches, so the list covers settings as well as CVEs.
Ranking
Findings are ordered by threat-based risk rather than severity alone, with AI-powered guidance explaining each fix; Arctic Wolf does not publish the scoring model.
Fix
An ITSM integration turns findings into tickets for the team that owns them, and the separately sold Resolve add-on brings automated patch management to the console.
Internal and external scans feed one inventory — ranked by threat, ticketed through ITSM, patched with Resolve.
Nine capabilities. Find, rank, fix.
Aurora Vulnerability Management finds the weaknesses on your estate, ranks them by threat and hands the fixes to the people who patch.
Scans inside the network
Internal vulnerability scanning covers the servers, PCs and devices on your network: what an intruder reaches once inside.
Scans what faces the internet
External scanning looks at internet-facing assets the way an outsider would, so exposed services appear beside internal findings.
A record of what is out there
Assets found by scanning are kept as an inventory, so every ranked finding has a device and an owner to attach to.
Risk first, not severity first
Prioritisation weighs the threat behind a finding, not only its CVSS score; Arctic Wolf does not publish the model’s inputs.
Settings, not only patches
Misconfigurations are flagged as well as missing patches, so weak settings sit in the same ranked list as the CVEs.
Fix steps written out
AI-powered remediation guidance spells out how to close each finding, for the IT engineer who has to make the change.
Tickets in your service desk
An ITSM integration pushes findings into your service-management tool, so each fix is tracked where IT already works.
One-click patching, paid extra
Resolve, a separately bought add-on, adds automated patch management; Arctic Wolf’s own demo applies patches in one click.
Sits beside Aurora MDR
Security Operations Plus puts it with Aurora MDR, Concierge delivery and awareness training under a single Arctic Wolf contract.
Watch Aurora Vulnerability Management in action
The product end to end, patching ranked findings with the Resolve add-on, and connecting an ITSM tool. All from Arctic Wolf’s official channel, recorded in 2026.
How Aurora Vulnerability Management Unifies Visibility, Prioritization & Remediation
The product end to end: asset visibility, threat-based ranking and the remediation step, under its current name.
How to Patch Vulnerabilities and Reduce Risk with Aurora Vulnerability Management and Resolve
The Resolve add-on at work: picking ranked findings and patching them from the same console.
How to Integrate ITSM in Aurora Vulnerability Management for Better Visibility & Faster Remediation
Connecting a service-management tool so findings arrive as tickets for the team that owns each asset.
Want a live, India-context walkthrough for your environment?
Book a guided demo →A scan report does not patch anything. Aurora ranks the findings and moves them to the fix.
Here’s what genuinely sets it apart — and exactly where it stops.
Findings from the vendor already watching you
If Aurora MDR is already in place, this adds vulnerability scanning without a second vendor or contract. The Security Operations Plus bundle carries it beside MDR, Concierge delivery, log retention and awareness training, so exposure and detection are bought and renewed together.
From a ranked finding to an applied patch
Most scanners stop at the report. Here the list is ordered by threat-based risk, each finding carries AI-written fix guidance, and with the Resolve add-on the patch is applied from the same console in one click. Without Resolve, the fix goes to your own patch tool.
Tickets where IT already works
The ITSM integration sends findings into your service-management tool, so the people who patch see them as normal tickets rather than a monthly spreadsheet from security. That matters most where security and IT are different teams and findings used to die between them.
Where it stops
There is no public price, alone or in the bundles, and patching costs extra through Resolve. Web-app scanning is not documented; cloud posture is a separate service. The scoring model is unpublished, no analyst ranks this product, and there is no India data region.
The numbers behind the platform
What your Aurora Vulnerability Management rollout looks like
Map the assets and owners
List the networks, sites and internet-facing ranges to scan, and name who owns each group of servers and PCs.
Decide on Resolve
Weigh your current patch tool against Resolve, and price the product alone against the Security Operations Plus bundle.
First internal and external scans
Run both scan types on a pilot segment, check the asset inventory against your CMDB and note what it missed.
Wire up the service desk
Connect the ITSM integration, route the top-ranked findings as tickets and time how long each one takes to close.
Patch, then measure again
Patch the highest-risk findings, through Resolve or your own tool, and compare the open list with the first scan.
The review scoreboard
Modelled on Gartner Peer Insights structure. *Counts and breakdowns are illustrative pending verified review collection.
Quick poll — what’s driving your evaluation?
Talk to an advisor“We already had Arctic Wolf MDR, so adding scanning meant one more line on the renewal, not another vendor review.”
“Resolve cleared a backlog of browser and runtime patches our desktop team had been deferring for a quarter.”
“Findings now open as tickets in our service desk. Before, the scan report sat in a security inbox nobody owned.”
“The external scan found a forgotten test server still facing the internet. That alone justified the pilot.”
“Ranking is sensible, but we could not get the scoring inputs documented for our auditor, which slowed sign-off.”
“Budget it with Resolve from day one. Without it you have a better list, and the same people still patching by hand.”
Where everyone sits — the grids
Analyst firms bury this view behind paywalls, and G2 retired its Grid. So here’s TechBag’s synthesis of the vulnerability management market — tap any vendor to see why it sits where it does.
TechBag Vulnerability Management Grid
Execution strength vs product vision — the classic market map, minus the paywall.
Grouped under Aurora Exposure Management since May 2026; quote only.
Remediation Reach × Prioritisation Depth
The grid nobody publishes — how far a product carries a finding towards the fix vs how much published evidence sits behind its ranking.
ITSM tickets, AI guidance and Resolve patching; scoring model unpublished.
Positions are TechBag’s illustrative synthesis of public review-platform data and vendor documentation — not a reproduction of any analyst graphic. Verify before relying on it.
Aurora Vulnerability Management vs the vulnerability management field
Against Rapid7 InsightVM, Tenable Vulnerability Management, Qualys VMDR, CrowdStrike Falcon Exposure Management and Tenable Nessus Professional — on deployment, reach, ranking, patching, workflow, price, India and exit.
| Dimension | Arctic Wolf Aurora Vulnerability Management | Rapid7 InsightVM | Tenable Vulnerability Management | Qualys VMDR | CrowdStrike Falcon Exposure Management | Tenable Nessus Professional |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | Scanning + risk ranking | Hybrid risk-based VM | Cloud VM, ex-Tenable.io | VM with patching inside | Exposure module, Falcon | Single scanner |
| Deployment | SaaS + local collection | Console you host | SaaS, or Security Center | Cloud Agent + scanners | Falcon sensor, cloud | Software you install |
| Scanning reach | Internal + external | Agent + Scan Engines | Scanners, agents, cloud | Agent across many assets | Six exposure surfaces | Credentialed or not |
| Prioritisation | Threat-based risk | Active Risk, 0–1000 | VPR | TruRisk score | ExPRT.AI + agent | Per-scan only |
| Patching | Resolve add-on | Projects, not patches | Reports, does not patch | Patching in the base | Does not patch | No remediation |
| Workflow and ITSM | ITSM integration | SLA-driven projects | SLA and workflow | ServiceNow orchestration | Within Falcon | Reports, no workflow |
| Web apps and cloud | Not documented | Separate products | Separate SKUs | WAS and TotalCloud | Cloud via Falcon Cloud | Basic web checks |
| Who operates it | Bundled with MDR | Your team | Your team | Your team | Your team, or Complete | One user |
| Pricing model | Quote or bundle | Per asset | Per asset | Per asset, by quote | Falcon module via Flex | Per scanner |
| Published entry price | Not published | $1.62/asset/month | $3,700 for 100 assets | No list price | Quote only | $4,790/scanner/yr |
| Included vs add-on | Patching is extra | Hardware is yours | Web and cloud extra | Patching included | Needs Falcon platform | Expert costs more |
| India data | No India region | Console in your site | in01, AWS Mumbai | India platform | Announced Jan 2026 | Stays on your machine |
| Lock-in and exit | Tied to the estate | Scores reset in 2026 | Cloud or on-prem | One agent, many apps | Falcon-centred | Portable results |
| Best fit | Arctic Wolf MDR estates | Workflow-led teams | Deep scanning, any site | Find and fix in one | Falcon estates | Consultants, auditors |
Which approach fits you?
Honest fit signals — because the fastest way to lose your trust is to pretend one product wins every scenario.
Choose Aurora Vulnerability Management if…
- ✓You already run Aurora MDR and would rather add scanning to that contract than bring in a second security vendor
- ✓Your real bottleneck is applying patches, and Resolve’s one-click patching would close findings your team keeps deferring
- ✓You want findings to land as tickets in your ITSM tool with written fix guidance, not as a report nobody owns
Compare alternatives if…
- ✓You need a price before the first call — Rapid7 InsightVM, Tenable Vulnerability Management and Nessus all publish one
- ✓Scan data has to stay in India — Tenable’s Mumbai site, Qualys’s India platform or a self-hosted InsightVM console answer that
- ✓You want patching inside the base licence rather than as an add-on — Qualys VMDR bundles it
Do not expect…
- ✓A public price, or automated patching without paying for Resolve
- ✓Documented web-application scanning or a published risk-scoring model
- ✓An India data region, or an analyst ranking for this product on its own
Arctic Wolf Aurora Vulnerability Management is one of 20 vulnerability management products TechBag carries. The Vulnerability Management guide narrows them to a shortlist and shows the reasoning. →
What does a hand-run patch backlog cost you?
Drag the sliders (assets you scan; IT staff-hour cost). Estimates model the staff time spent triaging findings, raising tickets by hand and patching machine by machine, at an assumed 1.5 hours per asset a year, with 70% of it removed by threat-based ranking, ITSM tickets and Resolve patching. Both figures are assumptions. Illustrative.
Loaded cost = salary + overheads per productive hour. Illustrative only — your TechBag quote models your actual environment and modules.
Three ways to consume it
Quote only. Arctic Wolf publishes no price for Aurora Vulnerability Management, whether bought on its own or inside the Security Operations Plus and Total bundles that include it, and the Resolve patching add-on is priced on top. Arctic Wolf’s only public figures are AWS Marketplace offers for Aurora MDR and Managed Endpoint Defense, and it shows no rupee price. TechBag maps your networks and asset counts first, then gets the standalone and bundle quotes side by side in INR with GST.
Aurora Vulnerability Management
Best for finding and ranking, with your own patch tool
- Internal and external vulnerability scanning
- Threat-based ranking and AI fix guidance
- ITSM integration; quoted, no public price
+ Platform add-ons
Best for a broader rollout
- Scoped to your estate
- Add-on modules as needed
- Phased, right-sized deployment
With the Resolve add-on
Best when patching is the bottleneck
- Automated patch management
- One-click patching from the same console
- Sold separately; included in Cyber Resilience
Buy it for less — TechBag pricing beats list
Whatever the list prices above, TechBag negotiates a significantly better deal — with GST-compliant INR invoicing and local support. Ask us for your discounted quote.
Get an India-ready quote
Tell us your requirements and current tools — we’ll model it against what you spend today.
The 8 questions to ask every vendor
Take this into your next vendor call — including ours.
Which networks, sites and public IP ranges must be scanned, and who owns the assets in each of them?
Which scans will run from an on-site sensor and which need an agent? Arctic Wolf does not publish the split.
Will you buy Resolve, or keep your current patch tool and use this product only to find and rank?
Which ITSM tool should receive findings, and who triages the tickets once they arrive in the queue?
Who scans your web applications and cloud accounts? Neither is documented as part of this product.
Can Arctic Wolf explain the threat-based ranking in writing well enough for your auditor to accept it?
Which region will hold your scan data under the Supplemental Product Terms, given there is no India region?
Is it cheaper alone or inside Security Operations Plus? Ask for both quotes, in INR with GST, side by side.
Questions buyers ask
Ready to evaluate Aurora Vulnerability Management?
Map your networks and asset owners first, or let a TechBag advisor price the product alone against the Security Operations Plus bundle and decide with you whether Resolve beats your current patch tool.
Stats, ratings, review counts and pricing are illustrative and sourced from public materials; verify before purchase.