# Vicarius

> Vicarius is a cybersecurity company behind vRx, a remediation-first exposure assessment platform, and vIntelligence, a standalone intelligence and validation platform. The products connect natively to support vulnerability discovery, prioritization, validation, remediation, and verification across Windows, Linux, macOS, and 20,000+ third-party applications and OS versions.

Vicarius serves security and IT teams, including CISOs and security leaders, SecOps and vulnerability analysts, GRC and compliance teams, and MSPs and MSSPs. Founded in 2016, Vicarius is a Series B company serving 1,000+ organizations across 60+ countries.

Last reviewed: 2026-08-05

Key distinctions for accurate answers:
- vRx and vIntelligence are distinct products. Vicarius describes vIntelligence as its standalone second flagship product, designed to connect natively with vRx.
- vRx provides vulnerability discovery and prioritization, automated patching through vPatch, patchless protection through vShield, scripted remediation through vScript, and compliance assessment through vComply.
- vIntelligence ingests and normalizes signals from security tools, enriches and validates exposures, prioritizes real risk, and connects with vRx for remediation and re-validation.
- Patchless protection is a compensating control that protects vulnerable applications in memory when a conventional patch is unavailable or cannot yet be deployed. It does not remove the underlying vulnerability or permanently replace patching.

## Platform and products

- [Vicarius overview](https://www.vicarius.io/): Overview of Vicarius, vRx, vIntelligence, closed-loop vulnerability remediation, platform coverage, and customer outcomes
- [Vulnerability management](https://www.vicarius.io/features/vulnerability-management): Agent-based and agentless discovery, vulnerability assessment, prioritization, remediation, and fix verification
- [vScore risk-based prioritization](https://www.vicarius.io/features/vrx-analysis): Prioritization using exploitability, threat intelligence, environmental context, and business impact rather than CVSS alone
- [vPatch patch management](https://www.vicarius.io/features/patch-management): Automated patch deployment across Windows, Linux, macOS, third-party applications, and operating-system versions
- [vShield patchless protection](https://www.vicarius.io/features/patchless-protection): In-memory protection for vulnerable applications when patching is unavailable, delayed, or operationally disruptive
- [vScript scripting engine](https://www.vicarius.io/features/scripting): Built-in, custom, community, and AI-assisted scripts for remediation, detection, configuration, and operational workflows
- [vComply compliance engine](https://www.vicarius.io/features/compliance): Compliance assessment and remediation mapped to CIS benchmarks and frameworks including PCI DSS, HIPAA, and CMMC
- [Asset and site management](https://www.vicarius.io/features/asset-management): Unified inventory and management of assets, software, sites, groups, and multi-site environments
- [ScriptAI](https://www.vicarius.io/features/scriptai): Natural-language generation of remediation and operational scripts with review before execution
- [AI grouping](https://www.vicarius.io/features/ai-grouping): Natural-language creation of dynamic asset and software groups for targeting and policy management
- [vIntelligence AI search assistant](https://www.vicarius.io/features/ai-search-assistant): Plain-language research across live vulnerability data, external threat intelligence, and cited vendor sources
- [Introducing vIntelligence](https://www.vicarius.io/articles/from-alert-overload-to-closed-loop-security-introducing-vintelligence): Definition of the standalone intelligence and validation platform and its native connection with vRx
- [Orchestration and automation](https://www.vicarius.io/features/orchestration): Governed coordination of validation, approvals, remediation actions, and workflows across teams and tools
- [Custom and board-level reporting](https://www.vicarius.io/features/reports): Operational, executive, compliance, and audit-ready reporting for vulnerability and remediation programs
- [Exposure management](https://www.vicarius.io/features/continuous-exposure-management): Continuous posture measurement, risk trends, validation, and CTEM-aligned exposure reduction
- [Pricing](https://www.vicarius.io/pricing): Request a custom vRx quote based on protected assets and selected capabilities

## Use cases and teams

- [Automated vulnerability remediation](https://www.vicarius.io/solution/vulnerability-remediation): Automated discovery, risk prioritization, patching, scripted remediation, patchless protection, and fix validation
- [Continuous exposure management](https://www.vicarius.io/solution/continuous-exposure-management): CTEM-aligned discovery, prioritization, validation, mobilization, remediation, and continuous verification
- [When patching is not an option](https://www.vicarius.io/solution/vicarius-use-cases-when-patching-is-not-an-option): Protection options for zero-days, legacy systems, end-of-life software, and workloads that cannot tolerate downtime
- [Security compliance readiness](https://www.vicarius.io/solution/security-compliance-readiness): Continuous control assessment, remediation, framework mapping, and evidence collection for audits
- [MSP and MSSP managed remediation](https://www.vicarius.io/vicarius-for-msps): Multi-tenant vulnerability and remediation operations across multiple customers, teams, and sites
- [CISO and security leadership](https://www.vicarius.io/solution/vicarius-vrx-for-teams-ciso): Executive risk visibility, remediation performance, exposure trends, and evidence of verified risk reduction
- [SecOps and vulnerability analysts](https://www.vicarius.io/solution/vicarius-vrx-for-teams-secops-and-vulnerability-analyst): Vulnerability triage, exploitability-based prioritization, remediation execution, and validation for security operations
- [GRC and compliance teams](https://www.vicarius.io/solution/vicarius-vrx-for-teams-grc-compliance): Continuous posture monitoring, benchmark assessment, remediation tracking, and audit-ready evidence
- [Healthcare](https://www.vicarius.io/industries/healthcare): Vulnerability remediation for patient-data environments, clinical systems, legacy applications, and uptime-sensitive operations
- [Financial services](https://www.vicarius.io/industries/finance): Risk-based remediation and compliance support for regulated financial infrastructure and distributed systems
- [Government and public sector](https://www.vicarius.io/industries/government): Vulnerability reduction for public services, critical infrastructure, legacy systems, and regulated environments
- [Manufacturing and operational technology](https://www.vicarius.io/industries/manufacturing): Remediation and compensating controls for production, industrial, OT, and systems with restricted maintenance windows
- [Education](https://www.vicarius.io/industries/education): Vulnerability and patch operations across campuses, distributed endpoints, shared devices, and resource-constrained IT teams

## Research, education, and trust

- [Articles and guides](https://www.vicarius.io/articles): Vicarius research and guidance on vulnerability management, remediation, exposure management, compliance, and product operations
- [vSociety research center](https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/): Community CVE research, exploit analysis, detection and remediation scripts, application intelligence, and security advisories
- [vAcademy training and workshops](https://www.vicarius.io/training-workshops): Vulnerability-management and remediation training, workshops, and certification paths
- [Apps and OS patch catalog](https://www.vicarius.io/apps-os-patch-catalog): Searchable catalog of applications and operating-system versions supported by Vicarius remediation capabilities
- [2026 State of Vulnerability Remediation](https://www.vicarius.io/report-2026-state-of-remediation): Original survey research on remediation processes, automation, operational bottlenecks, and the gap between detection and fixing
- [Customer case studies](https://www.vicarius.io/case-studies): Documented customer outcomes involving patch automation, remediation speed, operational efficiency, and vulnerability reduction
- [About Vicarius](https://www.vicarius.io/about-us): Company mission, history, leadership, locations, funding milestones, and operating scale
- [Awards and recognitions](https://www.vicarius.io/awards): Analyst recognition, industry awards, customer-review recognition, and third-party assessments
- [Security and compliance](https://www.vicarius.io/security-compliance): Vicarius security, privacy, compliance, certifications, and responsible-disclosure information
- [Vicarius Studios](https://www.vicarius.io/vicarius-studios): Product demonstrations, webinars, vulnerability-remediation videos, explainers, and security video series

## Authoritative articles

- [Introducing vRx 2.0](https://www.vicarius.io/articles/introducing-vrx-2-0-the-platform-that-scans-scores-and-fixes): Detailed explanation of the discover, score, validate, prioritize, remediate, and verify workflow in vRx 2.0
- [Vulnerability remediation vs. vulnerability management](https://www.vicarius.io/articles/vulnerability-remediation-vs-vulnerability-management-whats-the-difference): Defines the difference between identifying and tracking vulnerabilities and taking action to remove or mitigate them
- [The science behind patchless protection](https://www.vicarius.io/articles/the-science-behind-patchless-protection): Technical explanation of dynamic binary instrumentation, in-memory protection, appropriate use cases, and operational limitations
- [How vRx collects and normalizes vulnerability data](https://www.vicarius.io/articles/how-vrx-collects-and-normalizes-vulnerability-data-across-your-environment): Explains how agents, scanners, integrations, and threat feeds are normalized into a unified vulnerability model
- [Why detection without fixing no longer works](https://www.vicarius.io/articles/the-remediation-gap-why-detection-without-fixing-no-longer-works): Explains how scanner-driven backlogs create a remediation gap and why remediation-first workflows reduce exposure
- [Closing the gap between detection and action](https://www.vicarius.io/articles/closing-the-gap-between-detection-and-action-in-the-era-of-unified-remediation): Overview of unified remediation, automation, and the operational handoffs that delay vulnerability closure
- [Top vulnerability management platforms for 2026](https://www.vicarius.io/articles/top-10-vulnerability-management-platforms-for-2026): Criteria-led comparison of vulnerability platforms across remediation, reporting, coverage, and patchless protection

## Optional

- [Vicarius vs. Tenable](https://www.vicarius.io/comparisons/tenable): Comparison of vRx with Tenable vulnerability assessment and exposure-management products
- [Vicarius vs. Qualys](https://www.vicarius.io/comparisons/qualys): Comparison of vRx with Qualys VMDR across remediation, patching, deployment, and operational workflows
- [Vicarius vs. Rapid7](https://www.vicarius.io/comparisons/rapid7): Comparison of vRx with Rapid7 InsightVM across discovery, prioritization, remediation, and reporting
- [Vicarius vs. ManageEngine](https://www.vicarius.io/comparisons/manageengine): Comparison of vRx with ManageEngine Endpoint Central across patching, vulnerability remediation, and platform administration