Lattice: Vulnerability Risk Mitigation
Lattice cuts the vulnerability backlog to the small subset that is publicly exposed, exploitable, and reachable in your environment, then identifies the control change that closes each one.
Why most vulnerability programs miss the real risk
- CVSS ranks by severity, not by what is actually exploitable. Most scanners surface critical CVEs that your existing controls already block, and miss the lower-severity issues attackers chain into working exploits.
- Backlogs grow faster than teams can patch. Engineering time is spent on theoretical risk while reachable, exploitable paths sit open.
- Exposure tools score risk on paper. They credit you for "behind a WAF" or "covered by EDR" without testing whether the control would actually stop this exploit on this asset.
The Inflection PointWhy this matters right now
CVE volume grew 45% in 2025 and is on pace for another 33% in 2026. AI-discovered exploits now compress the disclosure-to-weaponization window from weeks to minutes. Severity-based prioritization is mathematically unable to keep up.
The bottleneck is no longer finding vulnerabilities. It is deciding which ones matter, today, in this environment. Lattice is the layer that turns a 12-million-finding backlog into the small subset that is publicly exposed, live-exploited, and reachable, with the specific control change that closes each one.
How Lattice works
1Unify
Normalize CVE feeds, asset inventory, identity posture, and control telemetry into the Security Context Graph.
2Exploitability
Score each CVE by public exposure, live exploitation, weaponization signals, and AI-discovered variants.
3Defensibility
Test whether your existing controls (EDR, WAF, IAM, firewall, SIEM) would actually stop exploitation on this asset.
4Reachability
Validate against the digital twin: is this exposure on a path that reaches a crown-jewel asset?
5Prioritize
Surface the actionable subset (publicly exposed, exploitable, undefended, reachable) ranked by breach impact.
6Track
Measure mitigation progress with evidence. Re-validate exploitability and defensibility as the environment changes.
Works across 150+ integrations →
Common exposures Lattice prioritizes
Public-Facing CVE With No Compensating Control
Filter chain: CVE published → internet-exposed asset → live exploitation observed → WAF/EDR gap confirmed → control change prescribed.
What Lattice determines: the asset is reachable from the internet, the CVE is being weaponized in the wild, and no compensating control would stop it.
How Lattice mitigates it: proposes the highest-leverage control change (virtual-patch WAF rule, EDR policy, firewall block) before the patch window closes.
High-Severity CVE Already Blocked by a Control
Filter chain: CVE published → asset inventoried → existing EDR/WAF rule tested → exploitation blocked → finding deprioritized.
What Lattice determines: the control would actually stop the exploit on this asset. Covered in practice, not just on paper.
How Lattice mitigates it: removes the finding from the urgent queue and continues monitoring. Engineering time is freed.
Chained Low-Severity Issues Forming a Path
Filter chain: three medium CVEs → identity misconfiguration → over-privileged role → reachable to crown jewel → chokepoint surfaced.
What Lattice determines: individually low, the chain reaches sensitive data through identity pivot and lateral movement.
How Lattice mitigates it: closes the highest-leverage IAM or segmentation chokepoint that breaks the chain, instead of patching all three CVEs.
Bypassed Control Silently Exposing a CVE
Filter chain: high-impact CVE → host with EDR policy → policy misconfigured → exploit not blocked → control gap flagged.
What Lattice determines: the host is in scope of the control, but the control would not stop exploitation in this configuration.
How Lattice mitigates it: corrects the control gap and revalidates that exploitation is blocked.
Every CVE evaluated on exploitability, defensibility, and reachability against the live state of your environment, not a static severity score.
Competitive Landscape: The Three Camps
CVSS-based vulnerability scanners
Rank CVEs by static severity, with no view of whether the issue is reachable, live-exploited, or stoppable by controls you already run.
Lattice scores each CVE on exploitability, defensibility, and reachability against your live environment, and identifies the specific control change that closes each one.
EPSS and exploit-prediction tools
Predict the probability a CVE will be exploited globally, without visibility into your assets, your controls, or your reachable paths.
Lattice combines exploit signals with your asset inventory, control state, and reachable-path model, so prioritization reflects your environment, not the internet's.
CNAPP and exposure-management tools
Credit risk reduction for being "behind a control" without testing whether the control would stop this specific exploit on this specific asset.
Lattice tests every modeled path against the live state of compensating controls and surfaces the silent bypasses any static scoring model would miss.
Tuskira (Lattice)
A live digital twin built from real assets, identities, controls, and exposures. Lattice combines exploitability, defensibility, and reachability on the same shared graph that powers Kairo, Quell, and FedSOC.
Lattice closes the loop. It deprioritizes the noise, surfaces the actionable subset, and prescribes the control change that closes each finding, then tracks closure with evidence over time.
What our customers say
“2026 is the year cyber defenses are seeing the shift from AI-assisted attacks to AI-enabled attacks, and defenders need to adapt. That’s why Intrado partnered with Tuskira.”
Charles Gifford, CISO, Intrado
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