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Thinking on fixing what matters.
Practical ideas on prioritising real risk, getting fixes approved and proving it worked — for security leaders, engineers and the people who sign off.
Five questions to ask any remediation vendor
Many tools find vulnerabilities. Few fix and prove them safely. Five questions that quickly separate reporting tools from remediation platforms.
Read article →Post-quantum readiness starts with knowing your cryptography
Migration to post-quantum standards will be a multi-year programme. The first step is the same as for any vulnerability: discover, prioritise by context, then fix with governance.
Read article →Running a remediation pilot that proves value in days
A good pilot is narrow, real and measurable. How to scope it, what to measure and what success should look like before you commit.
Read article →Building the business case for context-aware remediation
How to make the internal case: the cost of the status quo, the value of focus, the reduction in change risk and the evidence dividend.
Read article →Who wins when you fix what matters? Every team
Security leaders, IT operations, application owners and audit all want different things from remediation. Context-aware security gives each of them a reason to say yes.
Read article →Measuring what matters: metrics to report instead of vulnerability counts
Open-vulnerability counts rise whatever you do. Boards need to know whether real exposure is going down. Five metrics that tell that story.
Read article →Attack paths: when a "low" finding is the first step
Attackers chain weaknesses. A minor issue on the right system can be the doorway to your most valuable assets. Why prioritisation must look at paths, not just points.
Read article →Accepting risk responsibly: how to defer a fix without ignoring it
Deferring a low-risk finding is good practice. Forgetting about it is not. The difference is a documented, reviewed, time-bound decision.
Read article →Keeping data at home: AI remediation in your own environment
Source code and vulnerability findings are some of the most sensitive data you hold. Why where your remediation AI runs is a first-order buying question.
Read article →Segregation of duties in remediation: scan, approve, audit
When the same people find, fix and sign off a vulnerability, oversight is weak. How role separation supports first- and second-line assurance without slowing delivery.
Read article →Human approval vs automation: setting a risk-calibrated policy
The choice is not "automate everything" or "approve everything". A good policy automates low-risk non-production fixes and keeps a named approver where it counts.
Read article →DORA and patching evidence: what a regulator-ready trail looks like
Operational-resilience rules raise the bar from "we patch" to "we can show how we decide, act and verify". What a defensible evidence trail contains.
Read article →From ticket to verified fix: what "done" should mean
A closed ticket is not a closed vulnerability. Why verification by re-scan, with the evidence kept, should be the only definition of done.
Read article →Why application owners say no to patches — and how to get to yes
Owners are not being difficult. They are pricing in outage risk, unclear benefit and research work. Remove those three costs and approvals speed up.
Read article →Reachability: the question your scanner cannot answer alone
Scanners are excellent at finding flaws and poor at knowing whether an attacker can get to them. Reachability is where most of the prioritisation value hides.
Read article →Severity is not priority: rethinking how your queue is ordered
Severity scores are a useful input and a poor ranking. Why conflating the two creates busy teams and unchanged risk — and what a better ordering looks like.
Read article →One flaw, two places, two right answers
A worked example: the same high-severity library flaw in a payments service and an internal reporting tool. Why one is fixed now and the other is scheduled — and why both are correct.
Read article →The six context signals that separate real risk from noise
Exposure, exploitability, business criticality, compensating controls, attack paths and change risk. Here is what each signal tells you and why you need all six.
Read article →What is context-aware security? A plain-English guide
The same flaw can be critical on an internet-facing customer app and negligible on an isolated internal tool. Context-aware security judges each issue by where it actually lives.
Read article →Stop patching everything: why the backlog maths never works
Scanners report thousands of findings a month and severity scores call a large share of them critical. Patching in order is a race you cannot win — here is the question to ask instead.
Read article →Guided pilot
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