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Vulnerability Noise

Adva Harosh
Sep 3, 2025
2 min read

Updated: Jan 21

In the world of cybersecurity, more information isn’t always better.

A flood of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) often feels like an endless to-do list without clear priorities.

Current solutions often demand high maintenance or extensive integrations that still leave teams guessing about actual risk. Standard scanners are great at finding technical flaws but lack the business context to discern what truly impacts your operations, leading to overwhelming noise. This is where Max changes the dynamic by providing context-aware guidance that helps you filter through the noise and focus on what’s important.

Note: This is a simulated case study designed to illustrate how our solution handles this challenge. While based on typical data, the characters and events are hypothetical.

The company

B2B
120 employees
High-compliance environment
Security team: 3 members

Challenges

Overwhelming volume of weekly "Critical" and "High" CVE alerts
Wasted engineering hours investigating vulnerabilities that weren't exploitable in their environment
Difficulty prioritizing patches during busy development sprints

For two months, the security team has used a virtual consultant to triage weekly cloud scanner results and receive guided investigation support for security alerts. When a series of high-profile Java vulnerabilities emerged, the team faced dozens of potential matches. They submitted the list of vulnerabilities to Max for a detailed analysis and mitigation plan. Max provided a prioritized list of actions tailored specifically to their environment, filtering out vulnerabilities that are irrelevant or already mitigated, transforming reactive fire-fighting into a strategic remediation plan.

Outcome

Reduced time spent on manual vulnerability triage, allowing the team to focus on actual remediation.
Reduce volume of "Critical" alerts that were determined to be irrelevant.
Improve relations with other teams by only patching verified, high-risk concerns.
Strengthen the company's compliance posture by providing clear documentation on why certain CVEs were deprioritized.

Key takeaways

Knowing your environment provides more power than any generic severity score.
A list of vulnerabilities becomes meaningful only when it's an actionable, reasonable remediation plan.
Do more with less - maximize existing visibility with smarter, tailored advice, rather than heavy automation.

The mid-market angle

For mid-market companies, the "skills gap" is a daily reality where small teams defend against the same threats as global enterprises. These teams are deeply affected by CVE noise, lacking the luxury of a 24/7 security operations center to validate every alert. With limited resources and high pressure to keep the business running, spending days researching unexploitable vulnerabilities is a risk in itself. This tedious cycle often leads to burnout or missed threats. Fortunately, a solution exists that fits the mid-market's need for efficiency without the enterprise price tag - Max is providing clarity through ongoing, tailored, business-context guidance.