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vRx vs BigFix: Which one is right for you?

While BigFix excels at patch management automation, it lacks the full capabilities required for end-to-end vulnerability remediation. vRx, on the other hand, provides an all-in-one solution with built-in vulnerability scanning, prioritization, and comprehensive remediation, including virtual patching and patchless protection.

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Which solution is right for you?

End-to-End Vulnerability Remediation

vRx is a comprehensive solution that handles vulnerability detection, prioritization, and remediation from start to finish. By leveraging contextual information from your environment, vRx dynamically prioritizes vulnerabilities, ensuring your team focuses on the most critical risks. Native patch management, automation, and Patchless Protection™ make vRx a powerful and efficient vulnerability remediation tool.

Patch Management Only

BigFix excels at patch management and automation, but it relies on integrations with third-party vulnerability scanners like Tenable or Qualys to detect and assess vulnerabilities. This integration introduces complexity, additional costs, and potential gaps in remediation, as BigFix itself does not provide end-to-end vulnerability mitigation. As a result, while patch management is automated, full vulnerability remediation requires additional tools.

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vRx is continuously detecting and reporting new vulnerabilities in your environment. Using lightweight agents and an intuitive cloud dashboard, you will always be informed on the current active CVEs in your environment at all times.
BigFix does not provide vulnerability scanning
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vRx goes beyond basic vulnerability detection by analyzing and weighing additional risk factors associated with each vulnerability. From there, the prioritization engine automatically assigns an easy to read risk score so you know where your security and IT teams need to spend the most time and energy.
BigFix’s prioritization is only based on external sources like CVSS, CISA, etc. This does not take into account many contextual factors and does not allow for exploit likelihood and risk to truly be derived.
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vRx makes patch management easy. OS and 3rd party app patches are automatically aggregated in vRx for you and are able to be installed on endpoints through one time patches as well as through automations.
BigFix’s “fixlets” are essentially just scripts you can also run with vRx’s scripting engine. vRx goes a step above this, combining app updates with scripts to allow you to implement entire policies.
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vRx not only detects vulnerabilities but also has the tools to remediate them. Depending on the nature of the vulnerability, vRx has a corresponding mitigation method available
BigFix relies on integrations with vulnerability scanners for remediation, adding significant complexity and points of possible failure
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vRx provides several reporting options so you can choose what works best for your organization. Exporting data to external sources like SIEM, Syslog, Ticketing systems is possible as well as downloading executive and granular technical reports.
BigFix contains customizable reporting capabilities, but these are neither as intuitive nor as actionable as vRx’s.
"vRx gives a single pane of glass to see what patches needed to go out and what sort of vulnerabilities we have on our Windows machines. Our meantime to remediate vulnerabilities has gone down by about 60% to 70%."
Peter Fallowfield
IT Manager

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