What Makes a Critical Vulnerability Critical?

Oct 16, 2008 in Security

The lack of standards or consistency in the industry makes prioritization difficult for IT. Microsoft’s severity ratings are probably on target, but their definitions are obsolete.
- Today’s Patch Tuesday bulletins announced 11 vulnerabilities: four critical, six important, and one moderate. What do these terms mean?
You see severity ratings most of the time you see a vulnerability
disclosure, but there are no hard standards for severity ratings. In
fact some vendors most inf…