How NorthStar Prioritizes Vulnerabilities

Modern security teams face a relentless wave of vulnerabilities—often tens of thousands per month. But only a fraction pose real risk. NorthStar prioritizes vulnerabilities through a CTEM-driven model that considers exploitability, asset criticality, business impact, and compensating controls. This approach allows security teams to focus on what’s truly urgent, not just what’s trending in the scanner report.

CTEM as the Strategic Backbone

Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) requires dynamic visibility and prioritization. NorthStar was built from the ground up to support CTEM—providing security teams with ongoing assessments of their exposure and risk. Learn how NorthStar supports every stage of CTEM maturity.

• Exploit Intelligence: We integrate real-time data from CISA KEV, vulnerability intelligence data, and more to identify vulnerabilities with proven exploit activity.
• Asset Context: NorthStar calculates asset risk based on business function, ownership, network exposure, cloud deployment, and dependencies—not just tags from your CMDB.
• Control Awareness: Existing EDR, firewall, segmentation, and detection tools are factored in, highlighting where a risk is already mitigated.
• Business Alignment: Whether you’re protecting a production database, internal HR tool, or public API, our contextual model reflects how disruption would impact your business.

Context Over CVSS

Unlike legacy tools that rely solely on CVSS, NorthStar delivers a tiered risk classification (Imminent, Critical, High,  Medium, Routine, Low, Minimal) backed by a dynamic numeric score. This model considers real-world threats, internal protections, and asset sensitivity. For example, a medium-CVSS vulnerability on a mission-critical public asset may receive a “Critical” rating, while a high-CVSS vulnerability on an isolated dev instance may be deprioritized.

Built-In Remediation Tracking

NorthStar doesn’t just score risk—we help resolve it. Our platform connects directly with Jira, ServiceNow, or any other API enabled automation solution to streamline remediation workflows. You can assign owners, set SLAs, and track resolution progress with full audit trails. See how NorthStar enables smarter remediation planning.

Tailored to Your Stack

Whether you use Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7, AWS, Azure, CrowdStrike, or ServiceNow, NorthStar fits into your stack with native integrations. But more importantly, we tailor each data source to your environment and risk model—no black-box scoring, no generic assumptions. Explore our native integration ecosystem.

Conclusion: Actionable Prioritization for Security Teams

NorthStar transforms vulnerability management into a focused, business-aligned discipline. By contextualizing risk through the lens of CTEM, we help teams act faster, reduce exposure, and improve stakeholder trust. Don’t just scan vulnerabilities—prioritize them based on real risk.

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