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title: Manage application vulnerabilities as a DevSecOps, Platform, or Security team
source: https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/vulnerability-management/applications/manage-organization-vulnerabilities
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This document covers how to:

-   Calculate the vulnerability surface area of your software systems
-   Understand how runtime architecture of each application affects business risk, vulnerability and severity

If this workflow doesn't sound like you, check out our document on [monitoring vulnerabilities for a specific application](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/vulnerability-management/applications/monitor-entity-security).

## View the vulnerability surface area of your systems [#vulnerability-area]

![An image showing the summary Security RX overview page.](https://docs.newrelic.com/images/security_app-overview.webp "Security RX overview")

**[one.newrelic.com > All capabilities](https://one.newrelic.com/all-capabilities) > Security RX**

Once vulnerability data starts flowing into New Relic, you can access your data through various scoped views. To view a summary of your entire system, navigate to the [Security RX capability > Security RX - Applications > Overview](https://one.newrelic.com/vulnerability-management/apm-summary). This page provides curated dashboards representing the vulnerability of your system and baseline security hygiene.

Dig deeper into the security of your system by auditing the vulnerability of all your entities, libraries, and active vulnerabilities:

**Manage vulnerabilities for all your entities**

From the Security RX - Applications summary page, select **Entities** to review the vulnerability status of all your applications. This view shows all your applications and code repositories, and allows you to prioritize vulnerability remediation based on weighted vulnerabilities scores and severity profiles.

Clicking into an entity opens up a scoped entity view of Security RX. Learn more about our scoped entity view in our document on [monitoring entity-level security](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/vulnerability-management/applications/monitor-entity-security).

**Understand the security impact of libraries**

From the Security RX - Applications summary page, select **Libraries** to review the security impact of all libraries in your system. This view shows all the libraries used by your services and their security impact through vulnerability counts and severity.

Upon clicking a library, it provides you with a list of all library versions currently in use as well as a tab which displays all the vulnerabilities detected due to the library.

Upon clicking a library version, it provides you with a list of affected entities and vulnerabilities detected due to this library version.

**Manage specific vulnerabilities**

From the **Security RX - Applications overview** page, select **Vulnerabilities** to review all the vulnerabilities in your software system. This view shows every vulnerability, priority rank, reason for prioritizing it, number of entities affected, detected by and much more.

This view is especially useful when responding to a specific vulnerability. Instead of reviewing each service to see if it's impacted, this view condenses info based on vulnerability instead of entity or library.

Find the vulnerability you need to remediate, click it, review its direct impact of services, and take the recommended remediation steps.

## What's next?

[Monitor entity security](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/vulnerability-management/applications/monitor-entity-security)

Drill down into specific applications to see entity-level vulnerability details

[Manage vulnerability status](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/vulnerability-management/advanced/manage-vulnerability-status)

Change status to Ignored, Affected, or Fixed for remediation tracking

[Set up alerts](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/vulnerability-management/advanced/set-up-alerts)

Get notified when new critical vulnerabilities are detected

[Query security data](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/vulnerability-management/advanced/query-examples)

Build custom dashboards and reports with NRQL