Already using Trivy? A security workflow for five people.
Keep Trivy for the checks it already performs. First establish which legal or customer requirements apply; five employees alone does not decide that. Record affected assets, assign a fix owner, test the fix and retain a rescan. Use your existing issue tracker and document store before buying coordination software. Separately verify identity, endpoint protection, backups and incident ownership, because a scanner does not operate those controls.
Editorial team: Security Stack ComparePage updated:
What to check before buying
- Check applicability: sector, entity size, exceptions and national rules matter. Smaller entities can be covered in specific cases; customer contracts may create separate security obligations.
- Keep Trivy scanning the relevant repositories, images and deployment files. Confirm supported packages and enabled scanners; save results with the asset, version and scan date.
- Assign each finding to an owner, test the fix and save verification in your current workflow. Compare automation only when this work exceeds your team's capacity; agree integrations, responsibilities and total cost in writing.
- Agree the rest of the baseline: endpoint and access controls, MFA, supplier records, incident responsibilities and a tested recovery process. Trivy alone does not operate these controls.
- Keep a weekly time log for triage, approvals and follow-up. Budget actual implementation and incident work separately; do not turn a planning estimate into a promised compliance deadline.
Options and tradeoffs
Keep a working setup first. These are candidates for different jobs, listed alphabetically; compare the scope you need, not a universal winner.
Microsoft Defender for Business
Microsoft-oriented SMBs needing endpoint prevention, detection, vulnerability management and response
Limit: The standalone endpoint product is not the whole Microsoft security portfolio or a cross-tool audit program. Check server licenses and the 300-user limit.
Evidence: reviewed vendor documentation; see profile sources and limits.
Wazuh + osquery
Technical teams that want open-source visibility and are willing to own the engineering work
Limit: Technical compliance mappings are not a complete audit program. Self-hosted license savings require engineering, storage, tuning and triage; Cloud is not automatically a managed SOC.
Evidence: reviewed vendor documentation; see profile sources and limits.
Trivy does not replace endpoint response, identity administration, recovery or management accountability. A specialist EDR/MDR, cloud platform or independent assessor can still be justified by the risks or contractual scope. Add that depth for a concrete need; it is not an automatic license bundle for every five-person company.
Weekly team involvement
Weekly team time: planning for 1–25 people
Planning scenario: 1–25 people, up to 25 endpoints, 1–3 repositories and one small cloud environment where relevant. After initial setup, with no active incident or major backlog. Time is the whole customer team's combined weekly involvement, not time per person or scanner runtime.
Ranges cover routine review, administration and assigning follow-up work. Add onboarding, implementing fixes, incidents, major upgrades, restore exercises and audit/legal work separately. Tools cover different jobs: do not add overlapping estimates or compare them as a speed ranking.
These are editorial time budgets, not vendor claims, observed averages or service commitments. We add the displayed allowances for two recurring tasks. Linked product documentation explains the tasks, not the number of hours. Replace the allowance with a time log from your own pilot; larger or more complex environments are outside this scenario.
Trivy
Weekly customer-team involvement
~0.5–2 h/week
Editorial planning allowance · 1–25 people · team total after setup
What is included in this allowance?
- Review new advisories and affected versions: 15–60 min/week
- Check scan inputs and assign upgrades: 15–60 min/week
Ranges cover routine review, administration and assigning follow-up work. Add onboarding, implementing fixes, incidents, major upgrades, restore exercises and audit/legal work separately. Tools cover different jobs: do not add overlapping estimates or compare them as a speed ranking.
Sources and scope
- The general workflow for any open-source starting point
- Trivy: upstream scope and usage
- European Commission: NIS2 scope and FAQs
- How vendor evidence and fit are assessed
Source review: 2026-10-29
Related vendors
Related standards
Common buyer questions
Does a five-person company automatically fall under NIS2?
No. Sector, size rules, specific exceptions and national implementation determine applicability. Separate customer requirements can also matter. Confirm scope with your competent authority or qualified advisor before budgeting a compliance programme.
Can a calculator promise that we will be NIS2-ready in seven weeks?
A calculator can support planning, but cannot establish legal applicability, effective implementation or readiness from team size and scanner usage alone. Scope, existing controls, unresolved findings and accepted evidence must be reviewed.
Do we need to buy another platform?
Only for a demonstrated gap. First test the controls and evidence you already have, assign an owner and measure recurring work. Compare the cost and limits of software with improving the existing process or using qualified support.