Vulnerability
Prioritization
Identify, prioritize, and take action on critical vulnerabilities at machine speed.
Prioritization is more important than ever.
Frontier AI models have collapsed the time between vulnerability disclosure and working exploit. This means security teams are facing an avalanche of new vulnerabilities to sift through. Security teams need to know which Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) matter, because many of them actually may not.
Vulnerability prioritization combines real-time exploitation signals, threat actor activity, ransomware group associations, and your specific tech stack to surface the small fraction of CVEs that could require immediate action, and tell you exactly why.
Intelligence-led patching for what matters.
Intelligence in minutes.
Access real-time intelligence.
Recorded Future continually indexes exploitation signals from open web, dark web, government advisories, and primary threat research - often the moment they appear. This means you can identify new vulnerabilities an average of 11 days before National Vulnerability Database (NVD) publication.
Agentic processing turns vulnerability signals into a production-ready detection signature in as little as 30 minutes. Your team is not waiting on context while attackers are moving fast.
Organization-specific prioritization.
Prioritize based on your exploitation risk.
A live Recorded Future Risk Score, recalculated continuously as new evidence arrives, not a static CVSS rating. It integrates signals that tailor what to focus on specific to you and what’s happening right now.
- Active exploitation in the wild
- Ransomware actor association specific to your sector
- Threat actor campaign and tactics, techniques and procedures (TTP) targeting
- Your tech stack match, not a generic criticality score, through automatic Watch Lists from vulnerability scanners
Act pre-attack, at the first sign of threat.
Act before a vulnerability becomes weaponized.
Most vulnerability tools show you where a CVE sits in its lifecycle. Recorded Future can tell you where it is headed next, and how fast.
- Track each vulnerability from disclosure through proof-of-concept, exploit likely, and active exploitation, with alerts the moment status changes
- When a new ransomware group picks up a CVE that matches your tech stack, you can know before it lands
- Act quickly with remediation steps in Intelligence Cards without leaving your vulnerability workflow
- Use integrations (e.g. ServiceNow) to embed risk scoring directly into vulnerability prioritization workflows
See what our customers are saying.
We typically see 5–10 CVEs a month escalated automatically, saving the team roughly 3–5 hours gathering information manually.
Senior Engineer/Threat Analyst
Insurance Company
Recorded Future tends to be the first source to publish vulnerability related information, to include PoC exploits and exploits seen in the wild. This information is very valuable in prioritizing vulnerabilities for remediation.
Cybersecurity Professional
Aerospace & Defense Company
Intelligence from Recorded Future enables us to separate vulnerabilities that pose immediate dangers to Norwegian telecom organizations from those that represent merely theoretical or long-term risks.
Ole Kristoffer Apeland
Chief Security Engineer
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FAQ
Your questions, answered.
Why can’t I just rely on CVSS scores?
Common Vulnerability Scoring Systems (CVSS) scores are often insufficient because they rank threats in terms of severity alone. Classification and ranking systems like CVEs and CVSS don’t take into account whether threat actors are actually exploiting vulnerabilities.
How can Recorded Future help with prioritization efforts?
Recorded Future uses real-time data to score vulnerabilities based on their exploitability, delivering the context you need to help prioritize patches that matter most and prevent attacks. Proprietary machine learning technology from Recorded Future automatically detects reporting of new observables, including vulnerabilities, exploits, proof-of-concept code, exposed company assets, and threat actors targeting organizations and industries.
Are the vulnerabilities prioritized customizable to my organization?
Yes, Recorded Future tracks vulnerabilities specific to your organization’s tech stack without any agents or sensors required. Create Alerts based on specific criteria, such as a change in the vulnerability lifecycle of a specific CVE, allowing you to focus on the vulnerabilities that may be most relevant for your organization.
What are the different vulnerability lifecycle stages?
Recorded Future tracks vulnerabilities across four distinct lifecycle stages:
- Disclosure — Existence of a vulnerability has been announced, either by a vendor or research, and initial assessments of impact may be available and incorporated into scanners.
- Proof of Concept — Non-malicious PoCs exist for this vulnerability. Includes both verified and unverified lab-tested samples.
- Exploit Likely — These are high-criticality vulnerabilities with risky characteristics (e.g., remote execution) that may have been exploited or are likely to be exploited soon.
- Exploited — These are vulnerabilities used in malicious exploits or as part of a known attack.
How can Recorded Future integrate with my current security tools and workflows?
There are several options for integrating prioritized vulnerability intelligence into your current security tools and workflows. Check out our Integrations page for more information on our pre-built integrations and how to integrate into your tools via API. Or learn more about how you can use our browser extension.