Low Vulnerabilities

Overview

The Low Vulnerabilities stat card displays the number of applications in your environment that currently have one or more low-severity vulnerabilities. This metric is useful for IT Operations (IT Ops) and Security Operations (Sec Ops) engineers who want to maintain visibility into the overall security posture and ensure that even minor vulnerabilities are tracked and managed.

Value for IT and Security Engineers

Security Perspective

• Comprehensive Risk Awareness: Highlights applications with low-severity vulnerabilities, ensuring that all risks—not just critical or high—are visible and can be addressed as part of a holistic security program.

• Vulnerability Management: Enables security teams to monitor and manage the backlog of low-severity issues, preventing them from accumulating and potentially becoming more significant over time.

• Security Hygiene Tracking: Supports ongoing efforts to maintain a clean and secure application environment by surfacing minor issues that may otherwise be overlooked.

Operational Perspective

• Visibility and Accountability: Provides IT Ops teams with insight into the presence of low-severity vulnerabilities, supporting compliance, audit, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Resource Planning: Assists in planning remediation activities by identifying applications that may require attention during routine maintenance windows.

• Continuous Improvement: Encourages a culture of continuous security improvement by tracking and reducing the number of low-severity vulnerabilities over time.

Use Case Scenarios

• Security Posture Monitoring: Use the stat card to monitor trends in low-severity vulnerabilities and ensure they are being addressed as part of regular security operations.

• Audit and Compliance: Demonstrate to auditors and stakeholders that all vulnerabilities, regardless of severity, are tracked and managed.

• Risk Management: Prioritize remediation of low-severity vulnerabilities in business-critical applications or as part of broader risk reduction initiatives.

By providing visibility into applications with low-severity vulnerabilities, the Low Vulnerabilities stat card helps IT and Security engineers maintain a strong security posture and support ongoing risk management efforts.