For years, cybersecurity professionals have relied on a familiar metric to dictate their day-to-day priorities: the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS). In today’s hyper-connected, sprawling IT environments, utilizing a static severity score as the ultimate arbiter of risk creates opportunities for threat actors. While defenders chase down theoretical, high-scoring alerts, adversaries are quietly targeting the truly exploitable, business-critical exposures that slip through the cracks. In