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Threat Severity Distribution Overview

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Overview

Severity Distribution provides a project-wide risk snapshot, showing how threats are distributed across severity categories. This allows teams to quickly identify:
  • Whether Critical or High severity threats dominate
  • Which services or endpoints carry the highest impact
  • How severity changes over time as threats are added, triaged, or resolved
  • Imbalances pointing to systemic design flaws or weak areas
It is the fastest way to measure the risk concentration inside any system.

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What Severity Distribution Shows

Threat Severity Breakdown

View counts of Critical, High, Medium, and Low severity threats across your project.

Endpoint & Service Hotspots

Understand which APIs or services hold most of the high-severity threats.

Trend Insights

Track severity changes over time as threats are generated or mitigated.

Prioritization Signals

Identify areas that require immediate security engineering focus.

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Why Severity Distribution Matters

Ensures teams prioritize high-impact threats first
Helps engineering estimate workload and remediation timelines
Surfaces systemic weaknesses in architecture
Offers leadership a clear, data-driven view of project risk posture
Severity is one of the strongest indicators of where security debt is accumulating.

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How Snapsec Calculates Severity

Analyze Threat Metadata

Severity is determined based on exploitability, impact, environment, and system context.

Apply CWE & OWASP Mappings

Severity levels align with industry standards mapped to CWE and OWASP categories.

Account for Exposure

Threats affecting exposed or public-facing endpoints may be bumped to higher severity.

Continuous Recalculation

Severity updates as endpoints, conditions, or system behavior changes.

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What Problems This Solves

Unclear Priorities

Teams know exactly which threats require immediate triage.

Overloaded Engineering Teams

Helps distribute tasks based on severity-driven workload.

Invisible High-Risk Areas

Highlights endpoints or flows with concentrated critical threats.

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Use Cases

Sprint Planning

Use severity data to plan security engineering tasks and remediation cycles.

Leadership Reporting

Deliver executive summaries of threat severity trends and project posture.

Architecture Review

Identify weak system components that attract recurring high-severity issues.

Continuous Threat Monitoring

Track how fast high-severity threats are being resolved or discovered.

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Next Steps

View Full Threat Insights

Explore all threats, filters, and severity-based prioritization workflows.