High Vulnerability Results

Overview

The High Vulnerability Results widget provides a count of all high-severity security vulnerabilities identified by SAST scanning within your codebase. This widget serves as a critical alerting mechanism for IT Operations (IT Ops) and Security Operations (Sec Ops) engineers to maintain immediate visibility and control over significant security risks that require urgent attention.

Value for IT and Security Engineers

Security Perspective

• Critical Risk Management: Helps Sec Ops engineers immediately identify high-severity vulnerabilities that represent significant security risks and could lead to unauthorized access, data breaches, or system compromise.

• Incident Response Preparation: Provides early warning for vulnerabilities that may require emergency response procedures, especially if they affect production systems.

• Security Prioritization: Enables teams to prioritize remediation efforts based on exploitability and business-critical system exposure.

Operational Perspective

• Emergency Response Coordination: IT Ops engineers can use this data to coordinate expedited change management processes and deploy security patches with appropriate urgency.

• Business Impact Assessment: Facilitates rapid assessment of potential business impact from high-severity vulnerabilities, enabling informed decision-making about resource allocation and response priorities.

• Stakeholder Communication: Provides concrete metrics for communicating security risks to executive leadership and other stakeholders.

Use Case Scenarios

• Security Incident Response: Trigger immediate assessment and response procedures when high-severity vulnerabilities are detected in production or business-critical systems.

• Executive Reporting: Use high vulnerability counts in security dashboards and reports to executive leadership and board members.

• Compliance Auditing: Demonstrate rapid identification and response to high-severity security vulnerabilities as required by security frameworks and regulations.

• Risk Assessment: Incorporate high-severity vulnerability data into organizational risk assessments and business continuity planning.

By providing immediate visibility into high-severity security vulnerabilities, the High Vulnerability Results widget empowers IT Ops and Sec Ops teams to respond quickly to significant security threats and maintain robust protection of critical business systems and data.