What is a Vulnerability? Vulnerabilities are weak spots within your environment and your assets—weaknesses that open you up to potential threats and increased risk. And unfortunately, an organization can have thousands, often millions of vulnerabilities. Remediating all of them is not feasible, especially when most organizations only have the capacity to patch one out of every ten vulnerabilities. While that may sound like a losing battle, the good news is that only 2%-5% of vulnerabilities are likely to be exploited. And among those, an even smaller percentage are likely to pose an actual risk to your business, because, for instance, many of those vulnerabilities may not be actively exploited within your industry. So much for that old “everything is a risk” approach.
