What this covers
Fix the path that reaches impact, not the issue with the loudest score.
ThreatCanary prioritises by reachability, exploitability, chainability and business consequence—not severity in isolation.
01Why severity is insufficient
- A critical CVE may be unreachable or blocked by an effective control.
- A medium weakness can become material when it crosses identity, API or trust boundaries.
- Teams waste time when priority ignores ownership, compensating controls and the route to business impact.
02How priority is established
- Combine external reachability, target-specific validation, sensitive data and graph relationships.
- Show where multiple findings participate in the same compromise path.
- Preserve the evidence behind the priority so security and engineering can challenge it constructively.
03Choose the best breakpoint
- Compare remediation options across every hop instead of fixing every node in the chain.
- Route the selected action to the accountable team with reproduction and acceptance criteria.
- Retest the path after the change and close it only when the evidence changes.
04Outcome
- Fewer low-value emergency escalations.
- A backlog ordered by realistic attacker value.
- Measurable reduction in validated attack paths over time.
