How One Team Cut 188 Security Vulnerabilities to 6 With Documented Metrics

A software team reduced its security vulnerabilities from 188 open findings to just 6 through a combination of dependency upgrades, targeted code fixes, and documented suppressions. Seventy percent of all findings were actively remediated, with nearly half resolved through a single framework version upgrade known as a BOM update. The remaining 6 findings were not ignored but suppressed with written justifications, verified unreachable code paths, and scheduled review dates. The team also tracked exploit maturity alongside raw severity scores, eliminating all 8 vulnerabilities with known working exploits. The exercise highlights how raw finding counts can be misleading, and that meaningful security measurement requires tracking what risk was fixed, what remains, and why.