A hospital's new scanner reports 4,000 findings. The CIO wants a board dashboard next month showing risk falling, and operations wants to patch by severity score alone. What should the security manager do FIRST?
A. Patch every critical and high finding immediately
B. Validate findings and map them to asset criticality and owners
C. Build the dashboard from scanner severity counts
D. Rescan monthly to chart open findings
(Explain your answer for more points in the comments!)