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Prioritizing and Remediating Findings

Triage vulnerabilities by CVSS, exploitability, and business impact; write actionable remediation tickets.

The Prioritization Problem

A typical enterprise vulnerability scan returns thousands of findings. Without a systematic prioritization approach, teams either ignore them all or firefight randomly. Effective remediation starts with triage.

CVSS as a Starting Point

CVSS base score provides a vendor-neutral severity baseline. Start with Critical (9.0+) and High (7.0–8.9). But CVSS alone is insufficient — it does not account for your specific environment or exploitability.

# Filter by CVSS in Nessus:
# Vulnerabilities > Filter > CVSS >= 7.0

# In OpenVAS:
# Results > Filter > Severity >= High

All lessons in this course

  1. CVE, CWE, and CVSS Scoring
  2. Running Nessus or OpenVAS Scans
  3. Web App Scanning with Nikto and OWASP ZAP
  4. Prioritizing and Remediating Findings
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