After a quarterly scan, the security team is faced with hundreds of findings that vary in severity, exploitability, and asset coverage. To determine the remediation schedule, which single metric should carry the greatest weight when ranking vulnerabilities for action?
Risk score is the composite metric security teams use to prioritize remediation. It already reflects the CVSS severity, asset criticality, business impact, and probability of exploitation, giving a single, comparable value across findings. While host counts, recurrence, and cost matter, they are normally rolled into or follow the initial risk-based ranking.
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