Critical Vulnerability Results

Overview

The Critical Vulnerability Results widget provides a count of all critical-severity security vulnerabilities identified by SAST scanning within your codebase. This widget serves as an emergency alerting system for IT Operations (IT Ops) and Security Operations (Sec Ops) engineers to maintain immediate visibility and control over severe security risks that pose imminent threats to organizational security.

Value for IT and Security Engineers

Security Perspective

• Emergency Response: Helps Sec Ops engineers immediately identify critical vulnerabilities that pose immediate and severe security risks, potentially resulting in complete system compromise, massive data breaches, or total service disruption.

• Incident Command Activation: Triggers activation of emergency response procedures and assembly of critical incident response teams when critical vulnerabilities are discovered.

• Business Continuity Protection: Enables rapid assessment of threats to business continuity and implementation of containment measures to prevent catastrophic security incidents.

Operational Perspective

• Crisis Management: IT Ops engineers can use this data to coordinate emergency response procedures, including potential system isolation and expedited patch deployment.

• Executive Escalation: Provides immediate alerting mechanism for escalating critical security issues to executive leadership and key stakeholders.

• Regulatory Compliance: Ensures immediate notification and response capabilities required by regulatory frameworks for critical security vulnerabilities.

Use Case Scenarios

• Emergency Response Activation: Immediately activate incident response procedures and assemble critical response teams when critical vulnerabilities are detected.

• System Protection: Assess whether affected systems should be taken offline to prevent imminent exploitation of critical vulnerabilities.

• Stakeholder Notification: Provide immediate notification to executive leadership, legal teams, and regulatory bodies as required by compliance frameworks.

• Business Impact Mitigation: Coordinate emergency measures to protect business operations and prevent catastrophic security incidents.

By providing immediate visibility into critical-severity security vulnerabilities, the Critical Vulnerability Results widget empowers IT Ops and Sec Ops teams to respond to the most severe security threats with appropriate urgency and prevent potential catastrophic security incidents that could severely impact business operations and organizational reputation.