How to Tackle Vulnerability Fatigue by Focusing on What Really Matters

Key Points
Need to Tackle Vulnerability Fatigue: Explains how large vulnerability volumes lead to fatigue and why narrowing attention to high risk items improves remediation efficiency.
What is Vulnerability Prioritization: Describes how Vulnerability Manager Plus enables teams to reduce noise by using severity, exploit data, patch availability and vulnerability age to determine what requires attention first.
Quick Setup: Provides steps to streamline vulnerability lists using built in filters, CVE lookup, zero day views and age based insights directly available in the console.

Introduction

When organizations face thousands of vulnerabilities across servers and endpoints, teams can become overwhelmed and unsure where to begin. Low risk findings often dilute focus, resulting in delays that leave critical issues unaddressed. By highlighting only high risk vulnerabilities, teams can cut through the noise and reduce fatigue.

What is Vulnerability Prioritization?

Vulnerability prioritization in Vulnerability Manager Plus is the process of reducing unnecessary noise by focusing on vulnerabilities with meaningful security impact. The platform provides tools such as severity ratings, exploit status indicators, patch availability, vulnerability age insights and zero day identification. These factors help determine which vulnerabilities should be remediated first, allowing security teams to concentrate their efforts effectively.

Quick Setup

The following steps show how to filter out low risk vulnerabilities and highlight high risk findings in the Vulnerability Manager Plus console.

Step 1: Access all detected vulnerabilities

1. Sign in to the Vulnerability Manager Plus console.
2. Navigate to Threats and select Software Vulnerabilities.
3. Review the complete list of vulnerabilities detected across endpoints.

This list forms the starting point before you apply filters to reduce noise.

Step 2: Apply risk based filters to surface important vulnerabilities

1. In the Software Vulnerabilities view, select Filters.
2. Choose Severity filters to focus on Important or Critical vulnerabilities.
3. Add Exploit Status filters to highlight vulnerabilities with known exploit code.
4. Use Patch Availability filters to prioritize issues that can be quickly resolved.

These filters help reduce low priority findings and bring forward high risk vulnerabilities.

For reference, see the Vulnerability Assessment and Prioritization guide.

Step 3: Use CVE search to find high priority vulnerabilities instantly

• In Threats → Software Vulnerabilities, use the Search by CVE ID field.
• Enter any CVE identifiers tied to active threats or internal security advisories.
• Review results and add them to your immediate remediation list.

This ensures that significant vulnerabilities do not get lost within broader lists.

Step 4: Identify zero day vulnerabilities without filtering

1. Navigate to Threats → Zero day Vulnerabilities.
2. Review all vulnerabilities marked as zero day.
3. Select these entries for immediate remediation planning.

Zero day vulnerabilities are inherently high risk and should be addressed ahead of routine items.

Step 5: Use the Vulnerability Age Matrix to reduce clutter from low value older issues

1. Go to Dashboard → Home → Vulnerability Age Matrix.
2. View vulnerabilities grouped by severity and age.
3. Focus on older high severity vulnerabilities and deprioritize long standing low severity findings.

This helps avoid fatigue caused by older, low impact vulnerabilities that add noise but little security value.

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