When a “Critical” Vulnerability Isn’t Your Real Problem
A vulnerability scanner is very good at one thing: telling you that something is broken. It is much less good at telling you whether that broken thing actually matters — whether an attacker sitting outside your network could ever reach it, use it, and turn it into a foothold worth having. That gap between “this exists” and “this is dangerous” is where a growing number of security teams are now focusing their attention, and it’s reshaping how penetration testing itself gets done.
