Quantifies the 'DIY Doom Cycle' and the massive annual engineering costs associated with manual CVE triaging and image hardening.
As of mid-2025, the vulnerability landscape has reached a point of 'toil' where over 20,000 CVEs are published annually, representing consistent double-digit YoY growth. Research indicates that 95% of these vulnerabilities are essentially 'noise' that are never exploited in the wild, largely because CVSS scores fail to account for reachability, known exploitation, or compensating controls. DIY CVE remediation and 'golden image' hardening cost the average organization $2.1 million annually in lost engineering productivity. Outsourcing this management can unlock massive value, with specific sectors like Healthcare realizing up to $50 million in total value through reduced risk, faster innovation velocity, and increased revenue opportunities in regulated markets.
95%~ of those vulnerabilities are not critical whatsoever and are never exploited... failing to account for factors such as known exploitation, exploitation probability, reachability.
Risk Guard focuses on CVSS but does not yet integrate EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) or reachability signals to filter the 95% of noise.
Risk Guard would be better if it prioritized findings based on EPSS scores and reachability analysis to reduce the annual 'toil' cost.