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Track vulnerability remediation with the updated GitLab Security Dashboard

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Date Published
Author
Alisa Ho and Mike Clausen
Word Count
486
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16
Language
English
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Summary

Security and development teams often face challenges in prioritizing the remediation of numerous vulnerabilities due to a lack of contextual insights. The updated GitLab Security Dashboard addresses this by offering trend tracking, vulnerability age distribution, and risk scoring by project, providing a consolidated view of vulnerability data across projects, groups, and business units. Released in version 18.6 and further enhanced in 18.9, the dashboard includes new filtering options and visualizations that allow teams to slice data by severity, status, scanner, or project, making it possible to track open vulnerabilities, remediation velocity, vulnerability age distribution, and risk scores over time. These risk scores help prioritize which vulnerabilities pose the greatest threat, leveraging factors like vulnerability age, EPSS, and KEV scores. This update aims to make security efforts measurable and integrated into development workflows by converting raw data into actionable insights, enabling teams to focus on reducing risk effectively. The GitLab Security Dashboard also facilitates executive reporting by illustrating improvement in risk posture with clear trendlines, empowering developers to prioritize remediation efforts without relying on external tools.

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