How Vicarius and Pax8 Power Vulnerability Remediation for MSPs: A Better Together Story

Vulnerability management and remediation are no longer optional; they're essential. Yet many managed service providers (MSPs) struggle to stitch together multiple disparate tools, workflows, and vendor relationships to get real protection for their clients. This is where Pax8 and Vicarius come in, combining the cloud-commerce reach of Pax8’s marketplace with Vicarius’ remediation first platform (vRx) to deliver a unified, scalable solution to MSPs.

This is more than just a vendor listing. It's a purposeful alignment, creating value for MSPs across efficiency, security, and profitability. Here’s how and why the partnership matters and what it unlocks for Pax8’s partner community.

Who Is Pax8, and Why It Matters to MSPs

To appreciate the synergy, we first have to understand what Pax8 brings to the table.

Pax8 positions itself as “the technology Marketplace of the future,” connecting vendors, MSPs, and SMBs with a clean, scalable purchasing and deployment experience. The Pax8 Marketplace enables MSPs to browse, quote, provision, and bill software and cloud services in one place. In effect, it replaces the complexity of dealing with multiple vendors, portals, and billing systems.  

Some key strengths of Pax8:

• Scalability and reach - Pax8 serves over 40,000 MSPs globally (per the PR) and supports many thousands of SMB end customers via its partner ecosystem.
• Marketplace efficiencies - Because Pax8 handles provisioning automation, billing consolidation, and integration tooling, MSPs can reduce friction in offering new products.  
• Vendor enablement - For software vendors, Pax8 offers a ready go-to-market channel, lowering customer acquisition cost and enabling reach into new segments.  
• Innovation orientation - Pax8 continuously evolves its Marketplace, integrating AI-driven insights, an “Opportunity Explorer” to help MSPs identify gaps, and automated workflows to reduce silos.  

Pax8 is more than a distribution channel; it's a platform that helps MSPs operate more nimbly, deliver more solutions, and scale more predictably.  

What Vicarius Brings: Automated Remediation with vRx

While many security vendors focus on vulnerability scanning, Vicarius takes a remediation-first approach. Our flagship product vRx is a unified vulnerability remediation platform that not only finds issues but helps resolve them often automatically.  

Core Capabilities of vRx

1. Discovery / Visibility - vRx continuously scans servers, workstations, applications, and operating systems, providing real-time insight into vulnerabilities.
2. Risk Prioritization - Instead of treating all vulnerabilities equally, vRx applies contextual intelligence. It considers asset criticality, environmental sensitivity, and exploit likelihood (not just CVSS) to highlight what matters most.  
3. Automated Remediation / Patch Management - Where possible, vRx deploys patches automatically across OS and third-party software (covering thousands of applications).  
4. Scripting Engine - For vulnerabilities that require custom actions, registry tweaks, configuration modifications, or nuanced fixes, vRx includes a scripting engine with prebuilt scripts and the flexibility to build custom ones.  
5. Patchless Protection - Some vulnerabilities may not yet have approved patches or may be difficult to patch without disrupting operations. In such cases, vRx can apply compensating controls, essentially “wrapping” the vulnerable component to shield it until a full fix can be deployed.  
6. Unified Platform & Workflow Automation - All of the above is delivered through a single console, streamlining workflows and reducing the burden of juggling multiple tools. Many customers report large reductions in manual effort (often 50–60% or more) thanks to automation.  

Vicarius emphasizes that it isn’t just about detecting vulnerabilities but “closing the loop” by closing them or protecting against them. Vicarius offers MSPs not just a scanner, but a full remediation engine and the ability to shift from reactive risk detection to proactive risk resolution.

Why Vicarius + Pax8 Is a Game Changer

When you combine Pax8’s reach and MSP enablement with Vicarius’ remediation engine, you get more than the sum of the parts. Here’s how our collaboration brings real value to MSPs:

1. Seamless Access via the Pax8 Marketplace

‍Vicarius is now the sole vendor in the Pax8 Marketplace offering vulnerability management, patchless protection and a full suit of remediation. This gives Pax8 MSP partners direct, friction-light access to vRx.

By making vRx available in Pax8’s ecosystem, MSPs don’t need to establish a separate vendor relationship, negotiate contracts, or wrestle with integration complexity; they can onboard vulnerability remediation through their familiar Pax8 workflow.

2. Consolidated Tooling & Efficiency

‍Before this partnership, MSPs might have had to deploy separate scanning tools, patching engines, scripting platforms, and manual workflows to manage vulnerabilities. With vRx delivered through Pax8, many of those silos collapse into a single pane of glass.

This consolidation translates to:

• Less tool sprawl
• Fewer integration challenges
• Easier billing, management, and scalability
• Faster time to value

3. Automating Headcount and Reducing Friction

‍One of the biggest burdens in vulnerability management is human effort patch testing, validation, remediation, coordination, and follow-up. With vRx’s automation and scripting engine, MSPs can dramatically reduce manual workload and staffing needs. 

That means MSPs can redirect capacity toward higher-value services security assessments, strategic consulting, incident response rather than getting bogged down in operational minutiae.

4. Profitable Security Differentiation

‍Vulnerability management and remediation is a highly demanded service in the MSP world. Yet many MSPs shy away, claiming it’s too complex or risk-laden. With vRx in Pax8, MSPs can confidently bundle remediation into their security portfolio with predictable costs, SLAs, and margins.

Because MSPs can now deploy vRx quickly (via Pax8) and scale it easily, it becomes a differentiator: “Yes, we don’t just detect we remediate.” That becomes a selling point for SMB clients, especially as ransomware, exploits, and CVE risks continue to dominate the news.

5. Trust, Proven Technology, and Scale

‍Vicarius is no fly-by-night. Vicarius has over 700 customers across 60 countries, with strong growth traction. Gartner, G2 and even IDChav recognized vicarius and their reviews praise our approach to automated risk evaluation and remediation.  

Pax8, meanwhile, brings scale 40,000+ MSPs in its ecosystem and operational discipline around provisioning, billing, support, and vendor management. The combination ensures that MSPs adopting vRx via Pax8 can do so with confidence in performance, scale, and integration.

Use Cases & Partner Benefits

To bring this partnership to life, let’s walk through how a typical Pax8 MSP might benefit:

1. Discovery & Gap Detection - The MSP logs into Pax8 Marketplace, sees vRx available (as the exclusive vulnerability remediation tool). They can quickly trial or deploy it into their infrastructure or that of clients.
2. Setup & Onboarding - Because it’s delivered via Pax8, much of the setup and licensing is streamlined with no separate sourcing or legal hurdles. Deployment is just a few clicks as per the PR.
3. Consolidated Workflow - The MSP uses vRx to scan for vulnerabilities, prioritize them, and remediate or protect, all within one tool. No separate RMM tool, patch manager, or scripting engine is needed reducing complexity and increasing velocity.
4. Automation & Scaling - With scripting and patchless protection, the MSP automates remediation workflows. Over time, that means fewer manual alerts, faster resolution, and better margins.
5. Client Reporting & SLA Management - vRx provides reporting and insights that the MSP can share with clients visibility into security posture, risk trends, and remediation status all integrated into their managed services contracts.
6. Business Growth & Differentiation - Because the MSP can more confidently offer vulnerability remediation, they can upsell or cross-sell into existing client accounts, capturing more wallet share through value-added security services.

Thus, MSPs get a plug-and-play security layer; Pax8 expands its security portfolio; and Vicarius gains access to thousands of potential customers all in a friction-minimized fashion.

A Future of Fully Managed Vulnerability Remediation

The story of Pax8 and Vicarius is a textbook example of “better together.” Pax8 contributes scale, marketplace efficiencies, and partner-friendly tooling. Vicarius contributes a remediation-first platform that closes the loop on vulnerability risk. Combined, the partnership creates a compelling offering for MSPs, one-stop access to vulnerability remediation with streamlined operations, lower friction, and higher margin potential.

When security expectations are rising, MSPs need more than passive detection they need automated, safe remediation. Thanks to Vicarius in the Pax8 Marketplace, MSPs can now offer that with confidence, positioning themselves as proactive defenders, not reactive responders.

If you’re a Pax8 partner curious to explore how vRx fits in your stack or to build a differentiated security offering this is your moment to take advantage of the synergy. Get your demo, map out your onboarding, and deliver vulnerability remediation as a managed service worthy of your reputation.