Vulnerability management, prioritization, and assessment: what’s the difference?

This article outlines the vulnerability management lifecycle—identification, assessment, prioritization, mitigation, and monitoring—and emphasizes vulnerability prioritization as the essential step for directing limited remediation resources. It critiques static scoring like CVSS for lacking contextual and exploitability data, recommends a risk-based prioritization approach that incorporates organizational context and exploitability, and suggests combining automation with managed services to accelerate prioritization and remediation.