Vulnerability Management: Reporting in Enterprise Security
Comprehensive visibility across endpoints in an enterprise can either serve as a competitive edge or as a liability. If visibility cannot help make quick and confident decisions, it’s just noise. It becomes overwhelming with dashboards and fragmented reports without a clear direction.
Security teams face mounting pressure to stay ahead of threats across multiple insecure systems. They also need to ensure endpoint compliance and maintain audit readiness. Yet, many still struggle because of fragmented reporting tools that offer limited insights.
According to Gartner, traditional vulnerability management is no longer sufficient on its own; organizations need continuous exposure management to prioritize risks effectively and act in time.1
The latest update to HCL BigFix Reports marks a significant step forward in endpoint management. By strengthening visibility across endpoints and providing enhanced, accessible reports, HCL BigFix has laid the foundation for smarter, more responsive security operations.
Why Enterprise Vulnerability Management Needs Evolved Reporting
With the increasing number and variety of devices, enterprises operate in hyper-connected environments with thousands of endpoints, cloud instances, mobile devices, and third-party applications. Legacy vulnerability management tools are not well equipped to provide centralized visibility or contextual prioritization, which is the need of the hour. This leads to patching delays and compliance gaps, further opening the enterprises’ IT infrastructure to potential threats.
Take the example of the 2017 Equifax breach2. A known vulnerability- CVE-2017-5638 in Apache Struts, had a patch available two months before the breach. Yet, it went unnoticed and unaddressed, leading to the exposure of the personal data of 147 million Americans. This was not a case of missing tools, but missing insight, a gap that better reporting could have closed.
What’s New in HCL BigFix Reports
As organizations seek more intuitive ways to make sense of their IT operations, reporting capabilities must evolve to meet that demand. In April 2025, HCL BigFix rolled out an update to its HCL BigFix Reports module, continuing its push to modernize the reporting experience across the platform.
This release includes:
- Improved accessibility and interface updates for a more user-friendly reporting experience
- Patch Performance Playlist
- Fixes for product defects, based on user feedback from earlier releases
- Remediation of five CVEs (CVE-2025-25977, CVE-2025-29907, CVE-2025-27152, CVE-2025-27789, CVE-2025-26791)
These updates add an enhanced layer of visibility, enabling more informed decisions around patch management and strengthening overall endpoint compliance efforts.
HCL BigFix now aligns more closely with the evolving role of reporting in broader vulnerability management practices, helping enterprises take better control of their IT environment.
Closing Gaps in Patch Management With the Patch Performance Playlist
One of the key additions in HCL BigFix Reports Update is the Patch Performance Playlist, which is a collection of report widgets designed to deliver focused insights into your patching process. Drawing data from different product areas, the Playlist acts as an abstraction layer on top of reports, allowing teams to tailor their view based on stakeholder needs.
The Patch Performance Playlist surfaces critical KPIs related to patch management, showing performance by device and by exposure level. It also includes trending data and environmental risk scoring, helping organizations quickly identify areas that need attention.
Staying Ahead With Innovations in Vulnerability Management
The latest HCL BigFix Reports update is available to all deployments running HCL BigFix Platform version 11.0.3 or later. The updated content is automatically gathered, ensuring that users have access to the latest fixes and improvements without manual intervention.
This upgrade reflects our ongoing efforts to make vulnerability reporting not just more accessible but genuinely useful. From easier navigation to more outcome-driven report creation and management, everything is designed to help teams work smarter and faster.
By improving data usability, actionability, and relevance to organizational IT objectives, these continuous improvements strengthen the role of reporting across vulnerability management, patch management, and endpoint compliance initiatives.
Conclusion: Visibility is the New Security Perimeter
As businesses are moving faster towards a future characterised by hybrid work, growing cloud environments, and sophisticated cyberthreats, the capacity to identify and respond to risk in real time has emerged as the cornerstone of successful defense.
Businesses are better able to react swiftly, remain compliant, and preserve business continuity when they approach vulnerability management as a data-driven discipline.
With HCL BigFix Reports Update, HCL BigFix helps IT teams find important metrics. It also tracks patch performance and streamlines reporting processes.
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