Why Fixing Every Vulnerability Is Wasting Time and Your Team's Budget
Security Boulevard, Tuesday, May 6th, 2025
We have discovered 10,000 vulnerabilities this year. Great, now what? This sounds like a lot of work has been done, but in reality, it is just noise, not a signal. After every scan, you get a massive list of CVEs, misconfigurations, and alerts.
It seems like everything is essential. However, the fact says otherwise - 90% of actual cyber risks come from just 10% of vulnerabilities. Fixing Every Vulnerability Is Wasting Time. Everything else takes bandwidth and fills the inbox. This 'alert overload' creates real problems:
- The security team burns out.
- Developers have no clear idea what to fix first.
- Critical vulnerabilities fall through the cracks.
So let's be clear: showing more vulnerabilities isn't progress. Fixing the right ones is.