Rank vulnerabilities by business risk, not just severity

The CISO must choose the first five remediation targets from 1,184 scanner findings before an external audit freeze. Risk ranking = technical severity plus exposure, exploitability, asset criticality, and control context Sorting by scanner severity alone can prioritize clean-looking technical urgency over the paths attackers can actually use to harm the business. Start with severity Filter critical and high findings, but treat this as the starting pool rather than the final order. Severity gives a useful signal about technical impact, but it does not know your architecture or business dependency. Add exposure Tag each finding as internet-facing, partner-accessible, internal broad-reach,…

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