Embedded Vulnerability Management for SBOMs, CVEs, and Release Reporting
Lynx Vigiles connects SBOMs, curated CVE intelligence, triage decisions, remediation tracking, and audit-ready reporting in one workflow built for embedded Linux, Yocto, Buildroot, containers, and custom BSPs.
- Monitor CVEs against the software actually shipped in each device release
- Reduce false positives from generic vulnerability scanners and public CVE data
- Track affected, fixed, deferred, and not-exploitable decisions across releases
- Export SBOM, VEX, and vulnerability reports for customers, auditors, and internal teams
If you are unsure whether your current process will hold up under audit or incident pressure, start with the assessment. If you already know where it breaks, request a demo.
Why Vigiles Matters
There is no shortage of vulnerability data. The problem is context.
Most teams are not struggling to find CVEs – they are struggling to answer:
- Does this actually affect our device?
- Is it exploitable in our configuration?
- What needs to be fixed now vs later?
- Can we prove what we did about it six months from now?
Without that context, teams fall into a familiar pattern:
- Generic scanners generate large volumes of low-signal alerts
- Public vulnerability data does not map cleanly to real component versions
- SBOMs exist, but are incomplete, inconsistent, or disconnected from triage
- Reporting becomes reactive when customers or regulators start asking questions
Vigiles is built to close that gap between raw vulnerability data and real embedded system impact.
Key Benefits
- 85% Fewer CVEs: Reduce the analysis workload and spend less time sorting through irrelevant alerts with curated, actionable insights.
- 95% Fewer False Positives: Eliminate distractions and focus only on the real threats and vulnerabilities that impact you.
- 40% Higher Accuracy: Use curated CVE data for better decision-making than public databases.
- Built-in KEV Compliance: Prioritize Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) to align with NTIA standards.
What Vigiles Helps You Do
Vigiles turns vulnerability management into a continuous workflow instead of a periodic exercise. SBOM data, CVE matching, and remediation decisions stay connected across releases.
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Build and maintain SBOMs across releases
Generate or ingest SBOMs from your build systems and keep them organized across products and versions. -
Match CVEs to what’s actually in your device
Map vulnerabilities to the components and versions in your software, so you’re not chasing issues that don’t apply. -
Filter noise and prioritize real exposure
Focus on relevant, exploitable risk instead of working through a flat list of alerts. -
Identify and track remediation decisions
See available fixes and track whether issues are patched, deferred, or not exploitable. -
Track changes and support audit-ready reporting
Understand what changed between releases and generate reports without reconstructing history.
This is the difference between running scans and running a process.
Built For Embedded Software Reality
Embedded products create problems that generic vulnerability workflows don’t handle well.
You’re not working with clean, upstream packages. You’re dealing with modified kernels, custom BSP layers, and low-level components that don’t map cleanly to public vulnerability data. At the same time, you’re supporting products for years and expected to maintain release-by-release documentation that proves how each CVE was handled.
Vigiles is designed around those realities. It works with the software as it’s actually built and shipped, not how it appears in upstream ecosystems. That means you can track what’s in each release, understand how vulnerabilities apply, and answer questions about older versions without digging through build logs or reconstructing context from scratch.
It fits into the environments you’re already using – including Yocto, Buildroot, Debian, containers, and custom BSPs – and integrates with embedded CI/CD workflows. Support for standard formats like CycloneDX and SPDX ensures your data stays usable across tools, not locked into a proprietary system.
Empowering Your Journey: Features of Embedded Vulnerability Management
At Lynx, we know your mission requires more than features, it demands solutions that guide you every step of the way. From advanced SBOM management to seamless integration with your workflows, Vigiles equips you with the tools you need to safeguard your products and systems effectively.
Manage SBOMs with Clarity
Focus on What Matters
Meet and Exceed Regulatory Standards
Integrate with Ease
Comprehensive Ecosystem Support for Embedded Vulnerability Management
At Lynx, we understand that every project is unique. That’s why Vigiles is designed to integrate seamlessly into your existing workflows and support a broad range of environments, tools, and programming languages. Together, we ensure your team has the flexibility and confidence to innovate securely.
- Supported Build Systems: Work effortlessly with Yocto, Buildroot, Debian, containerized environments, and custom BSPs.
- Compatible Tools: Integrate Vigiles into your CI/CD pipelines and development workflows with tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, and more.
- Supported Programming Languages: Benefit from compatibility with C, C++, Python, Dart, Java, and other industry-standard languages.
With Vigiles, you gain the power to adapt, innovate, and protect at the edge, no matter how complex your ecosystem.
Explore how integrating SBOMs, CVE monitoring, and VEX intelligence into your embedded CI/CD pipeline can elevate your security posture and ensure compliance in defense and aerospace environments.
Improve Compliance and Reporting Without Adding More Manual Work
Vigiles doesn’t just surface vulnerabilities. It keeps the decisions around them connected to the software, so you can explain what happened later without rebuilding the story.
When questions come up from customers, auditors, or internal teams, you’re not piecing together answers from multiple sources. You have a system of record that shows what’s in the product, which vulnerabilities applied, and how each one was handled.
That shows up in a few key ways:
- Clear SBOM visibility tied to real releases
Know exactly what software is in each version, with audit-ready exports when needed. - Defensible vulnerability decisions
Show which CVEs applied, which didn’t, and why – including VEX-based reasoning. - Release-to-release traceability
Understand what changed across versions without relying on memory or manual comparison. - Documented remediation and risk handling
Track what was fixed, deferred, or marked not exploitable, with context that holds up under scrutiny.
This isn’t extra process layered on top of engineering work. It replaces spreadsheets, side channels, and one-off documentation with a workflow that captures the evidence as you go.
Diagnose the Gap Before You Commit to a Tool Change
If your team already has tooling in place but still struggles with triage noise, reporting gaps, or unclear ownership, adding another tool by itself usually doesn’t resolve the issue. The underlying problem is often how vulnerability data, decisions, and documentation fit together across the lifecycle.
The Security and Compliance Gap Self-Assessment helps you see where your current approach is covered, missing, or unclear. It walks through the core capabilities required for embedded vulnerability management and highlights where your process and tooling are out of alignment.
Once you can see the gaps, it becomes much clearer what needs to change – whether that’s improving the process, strengthening the workflow, or introducing the right tooling in the right place.
Protect Mission-Critical Systems with Real-Time CVE Monitoring
Vulnerabilities pose a constant threat to embedded systems. Lynx Vigiles helps you safeguard the integrity of your systems with daily scans, curated alerts, and actionable insights tailored to your SBOM configuration. Spend less time chasing false positives and more time building secure products.
350+ CVEs Weekly
Stay on top of constant updates.
95% Fewer False Positives
Prioritize real, actionable vulnerabilities over noise.
40% Higher Accuracy
Compared to public vulnerability databases.
Built to Simplify Compliance & Reporting for Embedded Systems
Navigating complex regulatory environments requires the right partner. Lynx Vigiles ensures compliance is never a barrier to progress, offering VEX-enabled reporting, KEV prioritization, detailed exploitability assessments, and audit-ready SBOM exports. Streamline your process for meeting standards such as EO 14028 and EU CRA while minimizing the time and effort required to document your cybersecurity efforts.
4 Weeks Faster Reporting
Reduce reporting time with aggregated feeds.
Export SBOMs
In industry-standard formats such as CycloneDX, SPDX, and SPDX Lite.
Built-in KEV Support
Stay ahead of NTIA-aligned compliance requirements with audit-ready reports.
