Why Vulnerability Prioritization Requires More Than a Score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS) and similar scoring models are useful but insufficient for vulnerability prioritization on their own. Effective prioritization requires contextual factors like asset criticality, business impact, exposure, active threat behavior, and existing compensating controls. As vulnerability discovery accelerates toward machine speed, security teams need AI-driven platforms that correlate telemetry and threat intelligence to support human judgment rather than replace it with a single probability score.