High Vulnerabilities

Overview

The High Vulnerabilities stat card displays the number of applications in your environment that currently have one or more high-severity vulnerabilities. This metric is crucial for IT Operations (IT Ops) and Security Operations (Sec Ops) engineers to identify and prioritize remediation of significant security risks.

Value for IT and Security Engineers

Security Perspective

• Critical Risk Identification: Highlights applications with high-severity vulnerabilities, enabling security teams to focus on issues that could have a major impact if exploited.

• Remediation Prioritization: Supports prioritization of remediation efforts to address the most pressing vulnerabilities.

• Security Posture Tracking: Allows teams to monitor the effectiveness of vulnerability management processes by tracking the number of high-severity issues over time.

Operational Perspective

• Operational Risk Management: Provides IT Ops teams with visibility into high-risk applications, supporting risk mitigation and business continuity planning.

• Resource Focus: Helps allocate resources to address vulnerabilities that require urgent attention.

• Change Management: Informs change management and deployment decisions by identifying applications that must be secured before updates.

Use Case Scenarios

• Incident Prevention: Use the stat card to identify and remediate high-severity vulnerabilities before they can be exploited.

• Audit and Compliance: Demonstrate proactive management of high-severity vulnerabilities to auditors and stakeholders.

• Security Program Effectiveness: Track reductions in high-severity vulnerabilities as a measure of security program success.

By surfacing applications with high-severity vulnerabilities, the High Vulnerabilities stat card empowers IT and Security engineers to take decisive action to reduce significant security risks.