Keeping all software updated is a vital process for any business, in order to protect the security of it's data and business processes. The applications used within the business is therefore a large part of this monitoring process. However, this can be a huge amount of work depending upon the size of the organisation, and therefore a level of appropiate risk should be accepted so that the vulnerablities can be dealt with in the most appropiate time scales.

The number of critical vulnerabilities can vary everyday, so the monitoring systems in put in place need to provide an easy and effective way to review these vulnerabilities so they can reduce the exposure of the business to the least amount of attack vectors.