First, businesses must establish a good understanding of the different severity levels and the finer details such as the differences between high, medium, and low-severity vulnerabilities. Thinking more broadly, modern security teams have a plethora of tools and data to help allocate resources properly but oftentimes all of this information creates a situation where low-severity vulnerabilities are seen as “not a risk at all.” This is incorrect.
A security team should be concerned with leaving vulnerabilities unfixed — even ones ranked as low-severity. To better allocate resources, it's important to have stakeholder buy-in for a thorough remediation plan. Having a strong understanding of severity levels and thus being able to explain them to stakeholders will help achieve this resource allocation and remediate vulnerabilities more completely. ...read more!
