There were 10,644 vulnerabilities disclosed in the first half of 2018 alone, according to Risk Based Security. Vulnerability management is a central activity that can help organizations reduce their exposure to the attack surface and mitigate risk. Forecasts released by Gartner1 in 2018, around 30 percent of organizations will adopt a risk-based approach to vulnerability management by 2022, which could help them suffer 80 percent fewer breaches. The topology of a network can help define the opportunity for an attacker to exploit a particular vulnerability.”]