Score Security Debt With RICE
Apply RICE to prioritize security-debt work without relying only on severity.
The team has one engineer for three days and must choose among security debt items: deploy-approval MFA, dashboard rewrite, and an internal library upgrade. RICE: Reach x Impact x Confidence / Effort The common trap is to sort by scanner severity or executive noise. That can push broad, cheap risk reducers below dramatic but low-reach work. Reach Estimate who or what each fix protects in the next quarter. Deploy MFA touches every production deployment; dashboard rewrite touches security viewers; the internal library touches one non-prod tool. Reach prevents a pet project or scary edge case from crowding out controls that…
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