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Nothing to set up
No scoring model to build, no weights to tune, no rules to rewrite. The context that matters is already attached to every policy, so your queue re-ranks itself from day one.
Contextual Severity · Cloudanix Security GraphEverything is Critical.
Everything is Critical.
Which is another way
of saying nothing is.
Every scanner ships one hard-coded severity per rule. So an internal-only bucket and an internet-facing one arrive in your queue with the same red badge, and your team spends Monday deciding which Criticals were real. Cloudanix computes severity per asset from the security graph — exposure, environment, data, identity — and always shows youwhy it landed where it did.
- Severity per asset, not per rule
- Every adjustment shows its reason
- On by default — override any policy
one policy · two assets · two severities
policyS3 Buckets Should Have A Secure Transport Policybase: Critical
acme-public-assets
- internet-facing—
- production—
- reaches customer data—
effective severityCriticalstays Critical — nothing here to discount
acme-internal-logs
- internal-only↓
- non-production↓
- no sensitive data—
effective severityMediumCritical → Medium · internal & non-prod
Same rule. Same account. Different asset — so a different number, and the reason travels with it.
DefinitionSeverity is a property of the rule.
Severity is a property of the rule.
Risk is a property of the asset.
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Contextual severity means a finding's severity is decided by the asset it landed on — not by the rule that found it. Cloudanix reads the live context thesecurity graph already holds about that asset: how it is exposed, what it holds, what it can reach, what is running on it, and what it is part of. The finding arrives with a severity that reflects that reality, and the specific reasons that produced it. Nothing is hidden, nothing is silently suppressed, and the base assessment is always one hover away.
— Cloudanix product position
What a rule knows on its own
Policy failed on an assetCritical
One value, authored once, applied to every account, every environment and every asset it will ever touch. This is where every other tool stops.
What Cloudanix already knows about that asset
internet reachabilityenvironmentdata sensitivityidentity blast radiusattack-path presencewhat is running on itvulnerability exposurenetwork containmentownership & account tiercompliance scoperecent threat activity…and more each release
Which signals apply is decided per policy, not globally — a transport-encryption rule and an over-permissive-role rule care about different things.
What lands in your queue
effective severityMediumwas Critical
- internal-only — no path from the internet
- non-production account
- holds no regulated data
Still open. Still in compliance scope. Still able to escalate the day any of that changes.
The problemStatic severity doesn't just fail to reduce noise.
Static severity doesn't just fail to reduce noise.
It manufactures it.
A rule author has to pick one severity for every customer, every account and every asset that rule will ever touch. The only safe choice is the worst case. So the worst case is what everyone gets — thousands of times a day.
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One number for every environment
The same rule fires on your sandbox and your payments account with identical weight. Everyone learns to distrust the badge, and the real Critical loses its only advantage — being rare.
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Suppression is the only escape hatch
When severity can't move, the only way to quiet a finding is to mute it. Muting deletes the signal permanently — including the day that asset becomes internet-facing and the finding genuinely matters.
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Per-finding overrides don't scale
Editing severity finding-by-finding is a manual queue that resets every scan. What teams actually want is apolicy: "in this workspace, this rule is Medium on internal assets." Once.
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Prioritization sits in a side panel
Plenty of tools compute a smarter risk ranking — in a separate view, next to the severity that still drives alerts and reports. Two truths, one inbox. The engineers keep following the old one.
The control
It's already on. You don't have to do anything.
Contextual is how Cloudanix reports severity out of the box, so a quieter queue is the starting point rather than a project. If you ever want a flat number back, or your own, each policy can be switched in a click.
Default
Contextual
Severity that fits the asset.
Each finding is weighed against the asset it landed on, so the Criticals in your queue are the ones that can actually hurt you. Every adjustment shows its reason in plain English.
- On by default
- Quieter queue, same coverage
- Always tells you why
Your call
Customer Defined
Pin whatever you want.
Some controls are non-negotiable for your business or your auditor. Set those to the severity you want and nothing will move them.
- Your value, applied everywhere
- Existing findings update too
Opt out
Cloudanix Defined
The flat number, if you prefer it.
One severity for the rule, everywhere, the way most tools do it. It is always there as the baseline, and switching back takes one click.
- One value per rule
- Maintained by Cloudanix
What you get
A shorter list, and you can trust it.
The point is not the scoring. The point is that Monday morning starts with a handful of findings that deserve your week, each one telling you plainly why it's there — and that nothing quietly went missing to achieve it.
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No new agent, no new bill
The context comes from what Cloudanix already knows about your estate. Nothing extra to deploy, nothing extra to collect, no separate line item.
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Your alerts finally mean something
Lists, dashboards, thresholds and Slack notifications all read the same severity. Point your pager at Critical and it means what you think it means.
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Nothing is hidden from you
A quieter finding is still an open finding — visible, searchable, and in compliance scope. It gets loud again on its own the day your exposure changes.
The context we read
Everything Cloudanix knows about the asset counts.
Not a fixed list of attributes, and not a closed set — the more of your estate Cloudanix covers, the sharper your severities get, without you changing a thing.
Exposure & reachability
Whether the asset can actually be reached — resolved through policies, ACLs, endpoints, load balancers and routes, rather than read off a single public flag.
Environment & ownership
Production or not, which account tier it belongs to, and who owns it. The coarsest signal, and often the one that resolves the most volume.
Data context
Whether the asset holds or can reach regulated or customer data. A weak control in front of nothing is not the same finding as one in front of PII.
Identity & blast radius
How far the identities attached to the asset can get — escalation, cross-account assumption, and what sits downstream if any of it is compromised.
Attack-path presence
Whether a confirmed chain already exists from the internet to this asset. When the graph has proven reachability, that is the strongest escalation signal there is.
Runtime & threat activity
What is actually running, whether the asset already carries an exploited vulnerability, and whether anything suspicious has touched it recently.
What this means for you
You don't tune any of this. The context that matters is already attached to each policy, so switching a rule to Contextual is a single choice — not a scoring model you have to configure, maintain, or explain to your auditor. And because it reads the same graph as the rest of the platform, every capability you turn on makes your severities sharper without you touching a thing.
Why this needs a graphYou can't contextualize severity
You can't contextualize severity
without a model of context.
"Is this bucket internet-facing?" looks like a one-field lookup and almost never is. The answer runs through policies, ACLs, VPC endpoints, load balancers, route tables and the identities that can reach it. A scanner with a flat finding table cannot answer it, which is exactly why static severity has survived this long.
Cloudanix already models your cloud as a typed asset graph to walk attack paths. Contextual severity is the same graph answering a different question — so it arrived as a correlation feature rather than a new product with a new agent and a new data pipeline.
one graph · two questions
Attack Path asks
“Can something out there reach this asset, and what does it touch next?”
Walk the chain →Contextual Severity asks
“Given what this asset is and where it sits, how loud should this finding be?”
You are here- Exposure edges internet reachability, not just a public flag
- Identity edges who can assume what, and how far
- Data context which assets hold or reach regulated data
- Environment production versus everything else
Guardrails
Quieter, without losing anything.
Anything that can lower a severity deserves suspicion. Here is what a de-escalated finding still does for you.
Your audit is untouched
Compliance is scored pass/fail, never weighted by severity. A de-escalated finding is still an open finding against every framework it maps to — so nothing "completes" SOC 2, ISO 27001 or PCI because a number went down. Your evidence pack does not change.
You can always answer "why is this a Medium?"
Every adjusted finding shows the conditions behind it and the severity it started from. When an auditor, a customer or your own board asks three months later, the answer is on the finding rather than in someone's memory.
It escalates the day your risk changes
Posture severity is re-evaluated as your assets change. The day an internal bucket becomes internet-facing, its findings get loud again on their own — the thing muting a finding can never do for you.
You stay in control of any policy
Contextual is on by default, and any single policy can be pinned to your own value or switched back to a flat severity in one click. You are never stuck with a number you disagree with.
Across the platform
One severity model, every finding surface.
Contextual severity is not a feature of one module — every surface that produces findings inherits it, so your posture, detection, workload, identity and code queues speak one severity language. Pick your surface below to see what that looks like in practice.
The honest comparisonMost tools give you three options.
Most tools give you three options.
None of them is "change the severity."
Context-aware prioritization is a real and growing part of this market — several platforms rank findings by exposure and reachability, and cloud-native services expose per-finding severity edits through their APIs. The difference is where the context lands. Below is what we think is actually distinct, stated narrowly enough to be true.
ApproachWhat you getWhere it falls short
Suppress or muteThe finding stops appearing.The signal is gone even when the asset's context changes and the finding starts to matter.
Per-finding severity editAn API call sets severity on findings that already exist.Manual, retroactive-only, and often restricted to admins — it is an incident action, not a policy.
Separate risk score or exposure viewA smarter ranking that factors in reachability.Lives beside the severity that still drives alerts, thresholds and reports. Two numbers, and the automation follows the old one.
Cloudanix contextual severityA per-policy mode that rewrites the effective severity per asset, with its reason attached.Needs a real asset graph underneath, so it is not something a standalone scanner can bolt on.
If you are evaluating us against a specific tool, ask them one question: can I express "this rule is Medium on internal assets and Critical on exposed ones" as a policy, and will my alerts respect it? That is the whole feature.
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