Prioritising vulnerability remediation based on actual risk to the organisation rather than just CVSS scores.
Risk-based vulnerability management prioritises remediation based on actual risk—considering business context, asset criticality, threat intelligence, and exploitability—rather than CVSS scores alone. A critical vulnerability on an isolated test system may be lower priority than a high-severity vulnerability on your payment system. Risk-based approaches use threat intelligence (is this vulnerability being actively exploited?), asset value (what would compromise of this system mean?), and exposure (is this internet-facing or internal?) to prioritise effectively.
Why It Matters
The DSC Perspective:
You can't fix everything immediately. Risk-based prioritisation ensures you address what matters most first. Pure CVSS-based prioritisation leads to fixing critical vulnerabilities on unimportant systems while ignoring lower-rated vulnerabilities on crown jewels.