How Does Edgescan Remediation Priority Work?
Edgescan’s AI Insights includes a Top Vulnerabilities by Severity report, which highlights the most critical issues across your environment in a normalized, deduplicated format. This function acts as a priority hitlist, allowing security teams to focus remediation on the vulnerabilities that represent the greatest risk to the organization.
Version Number: v1.0.0
Published Date: 10 Sept 2025
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How It Works
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Data Collection
Vulnerability data is gathered from across your estate, covering applications, APIs, cloud, and network assets. -
Normalization
Variants of the same vulnerability type (e.g., Blind SQL Injection, PostgreSQL SQL Injection) are grouped under a single normalized pattern. -
Deduplication
Duplicates are removed, ensuring that only the earliest occurrence of each unique vulnerability per asset is preserved. -
Prioritization
Vulnerabilities are ranked by severity and impact, producing a concise Top 10 (or more) list of the issues that should be remediated first. -
Asset Correlation
Each vulnerability is tied directly to the affected asset, with supporting references to CVEs and CWEs where applicable.
Benefits
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Focused Remediation: Teams know exactly which vulnerabilities to fix first, reducing wasted effort on lower-risk issues.
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Noise Reduction: Deduplication eliminates repeated findings, leaving only actionable, high-priority vulnerabilities.
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Clarity Across Assets: Normalization shows systemic issues across multiple systems, such as recurring SQL injection or XSS.
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Time Efficiency: Reduces analysis overhead by surfacing a ready-made hitlist from complex scan data.
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Business Alignment: Simplifies reporting for leadership by showing the clearest path to risk reduction.
Use Cases
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Remediation Planning: Direct patching and mitigation efforts to the most severe and widespread vulnerabilities.
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Executive Risk Reporting: Communicate the “Top 10” vulnerabilities in a way that is both technically accurate and business-relevant.
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Trend Analysis: Identify recurring vulnerability classes (e.g., SQL injection, XSS) that signal deeper process or control gaps.
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Operational Efficiency: Integrate the prioritized list into ticketing systems (e.g., Jira, ServiceNow) for streamlined remediation workflows.
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Continuous Risk Reduction: Use the updated hitlist as part of ongoing vulnerability management cycles to ensure resources are focused where they matter most.