Prioritizing visible, short-term risks while overlooking deeper systemic or long-term vulnerabilities is correct.

Prioritizing visible, short-term risks while overlooking deeper systemic or long-term vulnerabilities is a common scheduling mistake because teams tend to fix what is most obvious or easiest to demonstrate to stakeholders. Visible issues produce quick wins but they may not remove the root causes that enable attackers or cause recurring incidents. Over time this approach increases technical debt and can expose the organization to larger, less visible failures that are costlier to remediate.

Effective remediation scheduling balances quick, low effort fixes with targeted investments in systemic remediation. Risk based prioritization that incorporates likelihood, impact and business context helps ensure that long term vulnerabilities are not ignored while still delivering short term value.

Always choosing the most elaborate fixes instead of simple effective improvements is incorrect because overengineering is not the specific scheduling pitfall called out here. That behavior can waste resources but it does not capture the tendency to chase visible symptoms at the expense of hidden systemic risk.

Concentrating only on long term strategic initiatives is incorrect because the question describes the opposite common mistake. Focusing only on long term programs can miss urgent issues, but the frequent operational error is to prioritize short term visible problems instead.

Relying solely on automated scanner output for prioritization is incorrect because automated tools are an important input but they are not the same as the bias toward visible, short term risks. Scanner results lack full business context and need human validation, but the core error in the correct choice is overlooking systemic and long term vulnerabilities when scheduling fixes.

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