Prioritizing Vulnerability Remediation with Risk Scoring

Application security debt can quickly overwhelm security and development teams. This translates into greater risk. For example, research reveals that the average application has 20 vulnerabilities in development and 4 in production. The reality is that certain vulnerabilities pose greater risk than others, and moreover vulnerability risk changes over time. Existing risk scoring approaches are static, require a lot of work to use and fail to heed threat intelligence changes. Under these risks scoring models, a vulnerability receives the same risk rating whether it is undiscovered or widely known, exploits exist, and if cybercriminals are actively attempting to exploit it. A different risk approach is needed that is simple to understand and use, dynamically adapts to real-world context, allows for uncertainty and missing data, and adaptively requires additional data when near the threshold.