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Why CVSS is failing us and what we can do about it
- CVSS revolutionized vulnerability management two decades ago, but its reliance on severity scores alone is now holding back security teams in measuring and prioritizing risks posed by vulnerabilities.
- Adversarial exposure validation bridges the gap between theoretical risk and real-world exposure by considering contextual factors like compensating controls, attack paths, and the business context, which CVSS scores overlook.
- Relying solely on CVSS ratings leads to wasted time patching low-risk vulnerabilities, overlooking critical attack paths, and getting trapped in a cycle of vulnerability overload.
- Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV) shifts the focus from static severity scores to simulations of real-world attack techniques and scenarios specific to an organization, leading to sharper prioritization of vulnerabilities with real attack potential.
- Organizations that embrace exposure validation benefit from clearer prioritization, improved communication, and smarter security control testing, leading to more efficient remediation efforts.
- Exposure validation challenges risk scores, transforms them into dynamic decision-making tools, and empowers organizations to prove their security posture continuously against real attack behaviors.
- AEV enables organizations to adapt faster than adversaries by anchoring their strategies in continuous, real-world validation, elevating cybersecurity from reactive defense to proactive resilience.
- Moving towards dynamic exposure validation from CVSS-based risk scoring is not only a technical upgrade but a strategic imperative in modern cybersecurity to prioritize security efforts with evidence and remediate with confidence.
- The future of cybersecurity demands a shift towards evidence-based security, where organizations supplement prediction with proof, looking beyond traditional risk scoring models like CVSS.
- AEV transforms cybersecurity operations by enabling teams to act with clarity, precision, and focus on vulnerabilities that truly endanger critical assets, establishing a state of sustainable readiness with continuous, automated validation.
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