Why We Built Nucleus Insights

Fixing CVEs Shouldn’t Be this Expensive

Today we’re announcing the beginning of the next phase of our journey. We’re launching our Vulnerability Intelligence feed, Nucleus Insights. As we’ve worked with many companies, partners, and clients over the years, this became an obvious next step for Nucleus, and I want to share with you why.

Fixing vulnerabilities is expensive. Not just in terms of patching costs or system downtime, but in people, time, and lost focus. At scale, remediation becomes one of the most operationally expensive functions in cybersecurity. And, as an industry, we’re not doing it efficiently.

The reality is this: most organizations can’t afford to fix everything. And the cost of making the wrong prioritization decisions is high. You burn time, delay real fixes, and lose credibility with the teams you’re depending on to reduce risk.

This is the problem we built Nucleus Insights to solve.

A Broken Model

Threat intelligence feeds weren’t made for vulnerability management. They were built for SOCs. They’re noisy, misaligned with vulnerability management (VM) workflows, and often disconnected from what VM teams actually need: clear, credible, and explainable signals about which CVEs matter and why.

Worse, the remediation economy is bloated. Many organizations pay six figures or more for human-curated feeds that still require manual interpretation and don’t plug into existing workflows. That’s not sustainable. We believe intelligence should be embedded, actionable, and affordable. The cost of execution should be measured in outcomes, not analyst hours.

One of our public sector customers said it best: “We’ve got five threat intelligence feeds, and none of them show up where our teams do the work. We need signal, not side projects.” High quality vulnerability intelligence is a core requirement for any mature VM program. But most organizations are realistically priced out. They have to rely on free sources of information that lack enterprise-level capabilities. 

Economics of Remediation

Vulnerability management has always had a flawed cost model, even for big organizations with many resources. Here’s the math: assuming it costs $150 to fix a vulnerability (and studies suggest that’s generous), the numbers quickly spiral. With 128 vulns per device and 10,000 assets, that’s over $190 million to remediate everything.

Our core mission has always been to make fixing vulnerabilities cheaper, more effective, and only the required vulnerabilities. That’s not just about better data. It’s about removing friction at every stage of the process, from analysis to action. This is why approaches like “Shift-left” are so popular. But there are other ways to help solve that problem once assets are in production. 

Security teams waste hours researching CVEs that pose no real threat. They lose time writing manual tickets for issues that should be pre-triaged. They pay for multiple tools to answer the same question: what should we fix next?

Nucleus Insights changes that. It brings the unit cost of prioritization and decision-making down by an order of magnitude. And it does it in a way that your team can actually use: inside the workflows, tickets, SLAs, and platforms you already depend on.

Why Us?

At Nucleus, we sit at the center of asset, vulnerability, configuration, remediation, and context data for hundreds of global organizations. We see every scanner, every tool, every action. We know how modern remediation actually works. And more importantly, where it breaks.

They weren’t getting this from other intelligence organizations. Our customers need a way to:

• Get real-time, threat-informed intelligence for every CVE inside the systems they’re using to fix issues.
• Automate decisions without relying on human bottlenecks.
• Eliminate the cost of interpreting and reconciling conflicting feeds.
• Prioritize accurately, act confidently, and scale remediation.

That’s what Nucleus Insights delivers. A constantly updated, expert-validated threat feed designed to plug into vulnerability workflows. Not another dashboard. Not another spreadsheet to analyze. A real signal you can automate inside the tools your teams are using to remediate.

How It Works – AI at the Core

Nucleus Insights combines massive-scale data collection, AI-powered enrichment, and expert validation into a single threat signal for every CVE.

We continuously search and analyze the internet: including social media, malware repositories, public exploits, vendor advisories, and vulnerability databases. Our multiple AI models extract, normalize, and correlate data across hundreds of fields to build a living intelligence record for every vulnerability. Algorithms then validate at scale, with humans in the loop for anything out of the ordinary or for high profile vulnerabilities. We constantly evaluate and challenge our models with real-world feedback, ensuring our intelligence reflects exploitability in the wild.

Every CVE in Nucleus Insights includes:

• Threat Actor Attribution – Links to APT groups and known campaigns.
• Malware & Exploit Intelligence – Active exploits, malware usage, proof-of-concept status, and weaponization.
• Exploit Chain Context – Where the CVE fits in multi-step attack paths.
• Mitigation Guidance – Machine-readable fix info, ready for automation.
• MITRE ATT&CK Mapping – Ties CVEs to tactics and techniques.
• Nucleus Threat Rating (NTR) – An explainable score based on real-world exploitation, ransomware use, and systemic impact.

We believe that data should be accessible, so we are making it available right where it’s needed:

• Embedded in the Nucleus platform, surfaced through automation playbooks, and accessible via API. Operational in your remediation workflows.
• Available in Nucleus Vulnerability Intelligence Platform (VIP) for your vulnerability analysts researching threats in your ecosystem.
• Available as a standalone data feed that you can consume via API to embed in other security tools.

The Road Ahead

This is just the beginning. Nucleus Insights is a foundational step toward making vulnerability remediation scalable. Toward driving down the real costs of security. And toward helping teams move faster, with more clarity, and less waste.

We built Nucleus Insights because someone had to. And because we were already doing the hard part: unifying the data, normalizing the context, and running the workflows that make vulnerability management scale.

Now we’re bringing the signal.