Prioritizing Vulnerabilities Beyond CVSS
CVSS tells you how bad a vulnerability could be in the abstract. This guide covers what to weigh instead — reachability, exploitability, and blast radius in your own environment.
Vulnerability Management
How to run a vulnerability programme that ends in fixes rather than tickets: scanning, deduplication, prioritisation by real exploitability, and closing the loop on remediation.
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Vulnerability Management FAQs
What is vulnerability management?
Vulnerability management is the continuous process of identifying, prioritising, remediating, and verifying security weaknesses across your code, cloud, and infrastructure.
How should vulnerabilities be prioritised?
CVSS severity alone is a poor signal. Prioritise on reachability, exploitability, and blast radius in your own environment — a critical in unreachable code matters less than a medium on an internet-facing path.
How do you reduce false positives?
Validate findings in context. A finding that cannot be traced to a reachable, attacker-controlled input is noise, and confirming that automatically is where most of the time saving lives.