CVE risk decisions, with evidence to back them
Can this CVE realistically harm your service?
AllowGate gives a deterministic answer, with the audit trail your reviewers expect. Stop drowning in CVE noise. Stop re-arguing every exception from scratch.
Selecting 15-30 security leaders for design conversations. 5-15 invited to paid early access. No newsletter.
{
"cve": "CVE-2024-21413",
"service": "payments-api",
"decision": "deny",
"winning_rule": "tag:internet_facing AND severity >= high",
"justification": [
"exposure: public (high confidence)",
"reachability: confirmed via static analysis",
"no scoped exception applies"
],
"decision_confidence": "high"
}The pattern in security teams under audit pressure
Most CVEs aren't real risk
Scanners flag thousands per quarter. Less than 5% threaten your specific service in its actual environment.
Decisions don't survive auditors
"We accepted the risk" doesn't satisfy a SOC 2 or DORA reviewer. They want the reasoning, the evidence, and the policy that justified it.
Exceptions become permanent
Tracked in spreadsheets, copy-pasted across tickets, never expire. Three years later, no one remembers why they were granted.
A policy engine, not another scanner
AllowGate doesn't find CVEs. Your scanners already do that. It decides what each finding means for the specific service it touches.
It plugs in between your scanners and your gates: image and package scans before deploy, runtime findings after.
Two-phase evaluation. First, all rules that apply to your service, environment, and tags merge into one effective policy. Then, the CVE is risk-adjusted by context (exposure, reachability, environment, confidence) and evaluated against that policy.
Every decision is one of three: allow, deny, or undetermined. Every decision carries the winning rule, the matched rules, the overridden rules, and the evidence chain that produced it. Same input, same output. Always.
Read the full approach ->Designed around the evidence frameworks that name CVE
SOC 2 ISO 27001 PCI DSS DORA NIS2 HIPAA
Not yet audited? Still relevant. Most pain shows up before the audit, not during it.
How early access works
Step 1
Register
Email only, 5s. Open to anyone.
Step 2
Selection
15-30 conversations. 30-min calls.
Step 3
Early access
5-15 paid slots. White-glove onboarding, founder support.
Applicants not selected for early access are invited to the second-stage beta and receive a launch discount.
Questions
No. AllowGate consumes findings from your existing scanners and decides which ones threaten which services. It replaces your triage and exception process, not your scanner.
AllowGate combines signals from your existing tooling (scanner output, runtime telemetry, code analysis) with explicit context you provide. Every signal carries a confidence level, and low-confidence signals are bounded in their effect on the decision.
Policies in AllowGate are explicit, scoped, and composable. Tenant-, project-, service-, environment-level rules combine into one effective policy at decision time. Most “unusual” policies turn out to be expressible.
Every decision produces a justification chain with the winning rule, matched rules, overridden rules, and decision confidence. This is the evidence reviewers ask for under SOC 2 CC7.1, ISO 27001 A.8.8, PCI DSS 6.3, and DORA RTS on ICT risk.
Yes, if you’re heading there. The triage and exception pain shows up well before the auditor does. The earlier the policy is explicit, the easier the eventual audit.
Yes. Early access is paid, at a meaningful discount to GA pricing. We’ll discuss numbers in the first conversation, not before.
AllowGate is built by Opservio, a company registered in Poland (EU). A small team with a strong opinion about how CVE triage should work. We’re talking to 15-30 security leaders to test that opinion before we build further.
We’re in design partner conversations now. Early access opens after we’ve talked to ~25 of you. We’ll commit to dates only when we can keep them.
Not during the conversation phase. If you join paid early access, integration is opt-in, scoped, and governed by a short pilot agreement we’ll share before any data flows.
Help us build AllowGate properly.
We'd rather have 15 sharp conversations than 50 shallow ones. If CVE triage is part of your week, we'd like to hear from you.
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