SHERPA (Shared Embedded Risk Prioritization Analytics) is a security posture management capability within the Start Left® Security platform, focused on intelligent vulnerability risk prioritization using machine learning and contextual data analysis. The tool addresses the challenge of vulnerability overload by correlating risk data from multiple security tooling categories — including SCA, SBOM, ASPM, and CSPM — into a unified, product-centric view. Rather than relying solely on generic criticality scores, SHERPA enriches vulnerability signals with business and product context such as asset criticality, exposure, and existing security controls. Key mechanisms include: - Automated vulnerability prioritization using EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System), CISA KEV (Known Exploited Vulnerabilities), and OpenSSF data - A no-code Risk Modeling API that aggregates data from disparate security tools - ML-driven analytics to correlate and rank vulnerabilities by exploitability and business impact - Product-centric vulnerability management, aligning remediation priorities to individual product teams - Pre-built alerting and automated workflows to orchestrate remediation actions SHERPA is part of a broader platform that also includes a Behavioral Analytics Engine (SPACE) intended to evolve vulnerability management toward threat prediction, and a Cognition Engine for security analytics and XDR-style monitoring. The platform targets cloud-native software development environments and is designed to reduce manual triage effort, eliminate tool sprawl, and enable autonomous security decision-making at the team level. It is delivered as a SaaS product.