A critical vulnerability on an Alpine-based reverse proxy sitting behind three layers of network controls isn't actually critical. A medium-severity finding on the database holding 90% of your customer data might be. CVSS scores don't know the difference. Your security team needs to. The Baseline Is Just the Start Vulnerability prioritization is a hot topic for security teams and vendors. Everyone wants a magic number that tells you what to fix first. The problem is that magic number doesn't exist--at least not without context. The way we approach it: focus on criticals and highs, generally ignore lows, and treat mediums as a "maybe" that gets reviewed after the urgent stuff is handled. That's a reasonable baseline, but it's just the starting point. Some things flagged as critical don't matter much in practice. Some highs can be demoted when compensating controls reduce the real risk. And some mediums deserve more attention because of what they protect.…