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Vulnerability management ROI and metrics tied to active exploitation

April 4, 2026r/AskNetsec

In r/AskNetsec, security teams debate how to prove vulnerability management value beyond scan counts, leaning toward metrics tied to exposure, time to remediate, and whether issues map to actively exploited threats.

leadership is asking “are we actually more secure than last year?” and I don’t have a clean answer.
We can show number of scans, number of findings and number of tickets but none of that translates to actual risk reduction.
It should be trivial to cross-reference your reports to CISA KEV, add a bit of open source threat intel and contextualization
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