Interview › Security & DevSecOps
How does Wiz help prioritise which vulnerabilities to fix first? [Basic]
Answer
Wiz helps prioritize vulnerabilities by adding cloud context such as internet exposure, workload criticality, exploitability signals, sensitive data access, privilege level, lateral movement paths, and whether the asset is actually running. This turns vulnerability management from score sorting into risk-based remediation.
Technical explanation
CVSS is useful but insufficient because it does not fully represent an organization's environment.
Context such as public reachability and high privileges can elevate a finding, while isolation and nonproduction status can lower urgency.
Prioritization should produce clear owner, SLA, fix path, and verification evidence.
Hands-on example
Example triage: fix first: KEV-listed RCE on internet-facing workload with production data access. Fix second: high CVSS on internal critical service. Defer with SLA: low exploitability package in a nonrunning image. Accept temporarily: compensating WAF rule plus approved exception.
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