Gartner’s report on exposure prioritization says fewer than 10% of vulnerabilities are exploited, yet most are treated as urgent, and CVSS scores alone do not predict actual exploitation or business impact. The report predicts that by 2028 organizations that prioritize exposures using threat intelligence, asset context, exploitability modeling, and security control validation will reduce breach likelihood by at least 70% compared to peers relying mainly on CVSS-based prioritization. It breaks the four elements down: Threat intelligence shows which exposures attackers are exploiting; asset context ties vulnerabilities to critical business functions and regulated data; exploitability modeling such as EPSS estimates statistical likelihood of exploitation; and security control validation tests whether existing defenses mitigate the exposure. The Picus Platform is cited as a tool that puts all four elements into practice, aiming to cut exposure windows and remediation fatigue. 1