Beyond Critical: Why Vulnerability Management is Failing Security Teams
I’ve come to recognize two distinct mindsets in security: those grounded in technical reality, and those I call the “boogeyman crew.” The latter operates on fear rather than facts, treating every scanner-flagged “CRITICAL!” finding as an equally urgent disaster. Their world is populated by various specters: the compliance boogeyman who’ll condemn them for not addressing every high-severity CVE regardless of context, the dreaded auditor who’ll condemn them for not following frameworks to the letter and, of course, the truly bad actors lying in wait. ...