Know your real exposure. Then shrink it.
Nexus CREM fuses vulnerabilities, exploitation intelligence, asset criticality and your dependency graph into one explainable exposure index — and shows the attack paths that actually matter.
A vulnerability count is not a risk picture
Scanners hand you tens of thousands of findings with no sense of which ones an attacker could actually reach, chain or exploit. Teams drown in CVSS 'criticals' that lead nowhere while the real path sits unseen. Nexus CREM turns the pile into one explainable exposure index and shows the handful of paths worth your week.
Severity ≠ risk
A CVSS 9.8 on an isolated host matters less than a 6.5 on a path to your crown jewels. CREM weighs reachability and criticality, not just severity.
Attacks chain, scanners don't
Real intrusions hop across dependencies. CREM propagates exposure along the actual asset graph to reveal attack paths.
Remediation has no ROI
Without exposure-reduced-per-effort, teams fix the loudest, not the most valuable. CREM ranks the fixes that remove the most risk fastest.
Exposure you can explain to the board
A deterministic fusion engine — every number is traceable to its inputs, not a black box.
Exposure fusion engine
Graded exploitation tier, compensating-control damping and bounded aggregation into a per-asset and per-org exposure index.
Attack-path propagation
Exposure flows across real CMDB dependencies to surface the reachable paths to critical assets.
Live vulnerability bridge
A continuously updated read of vulnerability exposure fed from real scan and asset data — not a static import.
Effort-ranked remediation
A what-if planner that ranks actions by exposure reduced per unit of effort, so the critical few rise to the top.
Self-populating trend
A leader-elected daily snapshot builds the exposure trend automatically, so you can show direction over time.
CMDB attack surface
A reachability view over the configuration graph that makes the real attack surface visible and reviewable.
Deterministic, explainable, honest about scope
CREM's scoring is deterministic and traceable — every index decomposes into its contributing factors. Scope boundaries are stated plainly so the numbers hold up under scrutiny.
Backed by a 54-assertion engine self-test and a 27-assertion live-bridge self-test on the running deployment.
Vulnerabilities, a CVE catalogue with CVSS and known-exploited status, asset criticality and the CMDB dependency graph.
Exploitation tier grading, compensating-control damping and bounded, criticality-weighted aggregation into an index.
Exposure flows across real dependencies to compute attack paths and reachability to critical assets.
Remediation what-if ranks actions by exposure reduced per effort — the Pareto critical-few.
A daily, leader-elected snapshot self-populates the org and per-asset exposure trend.
One console dashboard presents index, paths, trend and the next best fixes.
From 40,000 findings to 7 paths
CREM's job is compression with meaning: take the overwhelming and reduce it to the explainable few that an attacker could actually use.
- Exploitation-aware scoring with CISA Known-Exploited weighting
- Compensating controls damp exposure where defences exist
- Bounded aggregation so no single factor runs away with the score
- Every index decomposes to its inputs for review
- Exposure-reduced-per-effort ranking
- What-if modelling before you commit a sprint
- Attack-path context on every recommendation
- Trend proves the programme is working
Remediation with an ROI
CREM ranks what to fix by how much exposure each action removes per unit of effort, turning a backlog into a plan.
Exposure management that moves the needle
For the people who own risk
A number you can defend
Report exposure as one explainable, trending index — and show it falling as the programme runs.
Fix the critical few
Stop chasing CVSS counts; work the handful of reachable paths that remove the most risk.
See the real attack surface
Review reachability across the dependency graph and design out the paths before they're used.
Nexus CREM — capability spec
| Capability | What you get |
|---|---|
| Scoring | Deterministic exposure fusion; fully decomposable |
| Exploit intel | CVE catalogue with CVSS and Known-Exploited (KEV) weighting |
| Graph | Attack-path propagation across CMDB dependencies |
| Planning | Remediation what-if ranked by exposure-reduced-per-effort |
| Trend | Leader-elected daily snapshot; self-populating |
| Surface | CMDB attack-surface reachability view |
| Assurance | 54-assertion engine + 27-assertion live-bridge self-test |
| Scope | Boundaries stated explicitly; org-level and posture-based reads labelled |
Questions, answered
Is CREM a scanner?+
How is the exposure index calculated?+
Does it need the rest of the Nexus suite?+
Can I show the trend to leadership?+
Turn your findings into a plan
See your own exposure fused into one explainable index — with the attack paths and the fixes that remove the most risk, ranked.