You're working as a one-person security operations team at a startup biotech firm. Your group has recently completed a vulnerability assessment of the systems and assets in the existing IT asset inventory, which included identifying any current CVE issues listed for the asset types listed on the inventory. A number of urgent issues were surfaced by this assessment. The chief operating officer (COO) for the company believes that vulnerability assessment must now be complete and wants to get back to "normal" business. Which statement or statements might be your best response