My org runs SAST, container scans, and IaC checks on every merge in CI, and the output really crushes us. Thousands of findings pile up while my teams actually close a trickle every single sprint. Dashboards look green enough for leadership, but our real exposure window still stretches for weeks on end. Verizon’s DBIR found exploitation is now the top breach vector at 31% of breaches, and median time to fully patch hit 43 days. How are other teams closing that find-fix gap? Is it sharper prioritization, or something structural like dedicated remediation time?
Thousands of findings pile up
Sharper prioritization wins for us. We filter everything by reachability plus KEV and EPSS before it hits teams. That cut our actionable queue roughly tenfold. Reachable and exploited gets fixed first, rest rides the backlog until normal work picks it up.
Reprioritizing is procrastination with charts. Name an owner and SLA for every finding, and 43 days collapses.