CVSS Is Not a Prioritization Strategy
Sorting by CVSS and patching from the top is not risk management. It's busy work that burns out your team and still leaves the most dangerous exposures open.
CVSS tells you severity. It doesn't tell you risk.
A CVSS 9.8 in a test environment behind three firewalls is not the same as a CVSS 7.5 on an internet-facing system with an active exploit kit. But your scanner treats them the same. Your team patches in the wrong order.
30,000 CVEs a year. Your team can patch maybe 500.
Vulnerability management has become a triage problem. You can't fix everything. The question isn't 'what's vulnerable?' It's 'what's exploitable, exposed, and being targeted right now?' Most tools can't answer that.
Patching stalls because context is missing
Your team knows the CVE. They don't know which assets are affected, who owns them, whether compensating controls exist, or how the vulnerability is being exploited in the wild. Every remediation cycle starts with hours of manual research.
30,000+
CVEs published annually
<5%
Ever exploited in the wild
90%
Reduction in critical triage time
1 week → 1 day
Vuln remediation cycle
Intelligence-Driven Vulnerability Prioritization
Mallory combines exploit intelligence, threat actor targeting, and your specific asset exposure to rank vulnerabilities by actual risk. Your team patches the right things first.
Prioritize by Real-World Exploitability
Mallory goes beyond CVSS. It factors in exploit availability, active threat actor campaigns, ransomware association, EPSS scores, and KEV status to rank vulnerabilities by actual risk to your organization.
- Exploit availability tracking across public PoCs, exploit kits, and dark web markets
- Active adversary targeting: which threat actors are using this CVE right now?
- EPSS and KEV integration for data-driven exploitation probability
Contextualize to Your Environment
A vulnerability only matters if you're exposed. Mallory correlates every CVE against your CMDB, cloud infrastructure, and software inventory to show which assets are actually affected and how critical they are to your business.
- Correlation against your CMDB, cloud assets, and SBOMs
- Asset criticality weighting: internet-facing, data sensitivity, business impact
- Compensating control awareness: is this exposure mitigated by existing defenses?
Route to the Right Owner Instantly
The fastest path to remediation is knowing who needs to act. Mallory maps every affected asset to its owner and generates tickets with full context: the CVE, the exploit intelligence, the affected systems, and the recommended fix.
- Automated asset-to-owner mapping across your infrastructure
- Ticket generation with full vulnerability and threat context
- SLA recommendations based on exploitability and business exposure
Track Risk Reduction Over Time
Patching isn't the end. Mallory re-validates after remediation, tracks SLA compliance, and shows leadership actual risk reduction trends. Not scan counts. Not open ticket numbers. Real exposure change.
- Post-remediation validation to confirm exposure is closed
- SLA tracking with escalation for overdue critical vulnerabilities
- Executive dashboards showing risk reduction by business unit and severity
Same Vulnerabilities. Smarter Prioritization.
Scenario: Scanner dumps 2,000 new findings
Without Mallory
Sort by CVSS, start at the top, patch in order regardless of actual risk
With Mallory
Mallory filters to the 50 that are exploitable, exposed, and being targeted. Start there.
Scenario: A CVE with a CVSS 9.8 is disclosed
Without Mallory
Drop everything and patch. It's critical, right?
With Mallory
Mallory checks: no public exploit, not in KEV, no threat actor usage, only affects a dev sandbox. Deprioritize.
Scenario: A CVE with a CVSS 7.2 starts being exploited in the wild
Without Mallory
It's sitting in the medium-priority queue. Nobody's looked at it.
With Mallory
Mallory re-prioritizes automatically when exploit intelligence changes. It's now at the top of the queue.
Scenario: Board asks 'what's our vulnerability posture?'
Without Mallory
Export scan data, count open findings, present a number that means nothing
With Mallory
Mallory shows risk reduction trends, mean-time-to-remediate for exploitable vulns, and SLA compliance
Built for Teams Drowning in CVEs
Vulnerability Management
Stop patching blind. Mallory surfaces the CVEs with active exploits, threat actor interest, and real exposure in your environment so you fix what actually matters.
Security Operations
Prioritize remediation by real risk, not scan severity. Know which vulnerabilities are most likely to become incidents and act before they do.
CISOs & Security Leadership
Show the board risk reduction, not ticket counts. Mallory tracks mean-time-to-remediate for exploitable vulns and SLA compliance over time.