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AI Visibility Intelligence · Security Citation Verification

Every security id on your pages, checked against the authority that issued it.

Security content lives or dies on its identifiers. GrackerAI resolves every CVE, CWE, ATT&CK, CAPEC and NIST reference against the issuing body, verifies active-exploit claims against the CISA KEV catalog, and strips fabricated ids out of generated drafts before they reach your site.

Draft as generated

"…mitigated by controls described in NIST SP 800-207, and tracked as CVE-2024-99821, currently under active exploitation."

After verification
  • NIST SP 800-207 exists in the NIST catalog — kept, link checked
  • CVE-2024-99821 not found at NVD — stripped before publish
  • Active-exploitation claim not listed on CISA KEV — flagged critical

Illustrative example. The identifiers shown are checked live against NVD, MITRE, NIST and the CISA KEV catalog.

Why identifiers decide citation

In security content, the citation is the credibility.

Every other category can get away with a loose reference. Security cannot, because the identifiers are checkable and the audience checks them.

Problem one

A wrong id is worse than no id

A security page that cites CVE-2024-3400 for the wrong product does not read as slightly off. To an engine weighing whether to quote you, it reads as a source that does not check itself, and the whole page gets discounted with it.

Problem two

Language models invent identifiers

Identifiers are exactly the shape a model is good at imitating and bad at recalling. A generated security article will produce a plausible CVE number with a plausible description attached, and nothing in a normal editing pass catches it.

Problem three

Nobody re-checks last year's page

The standards link you added eighteen months ago still looks fine in the editor. It can 404, point at a withdrawn publication, or sit three sections away from the claim it was supposed to support, and no ordinary audit will tell you.

Frameworks resolved

Five identifier systems, each checked against the body that maintains it

An identifier is only meaningful if it resolves. GrackerAI holds a resolver for each of these, so a reference on your page can be confirmed to exist rather than assumed to.

CVE NVD / MITRE

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Publicly disclosed vulnerabilities with assigned CVE ids and CVSS ratings.

CWE MITRE

Common Weakness Enumeration

Structured dictionary of software and hardware weakness types, such as SQL injection or XSS.

ATT&CK MITRE

MITRE ATT&CK Framework

Knowledge base of adversary tactics, techniques and real-world attack behaviours.

CAPEC MITRE

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification

Catalog of common attack patterns used to exploit weaknesses.

D3FEND MITRE / NSA

Detection, Denial, and Disruption Framework Empowering Network Defense

Knowledge graph of defensive countermeasures, mapped to the offensive techniques they counter.

The Standards layer

The AEO audit scores standards as its own layer

Alongside technical, content and AEO readiness, every security-relevant page gets a Standards score. It runs in four stages, and a reference has to survive all four to earn full credit.

1

Present

Notice

Is the body actually linked, not just named?

  • NIST is backed by a real link to a nist.gov source, not a text mention
  • MITRE is backed by a real link — mitre.org for CWE, ATT&CK or CAPEC, NVD or cve.org for a CVE
  • CISA is backed by a real link for an active-exploit citation
2

Live

Notice

Does the link still resolve?

  • The NIST link still resolves and has not gone dead
  • The MITRE link still resolves and has not gone dead
  • The CISA link still resolves and has not gone dead
3

Real

Critical

Does the identifier exist at the authority?

  • A named NIST publication such as SP 800-53 or FIPS 197 is verified against NIST's own catalog
  • A named MITRE id — CVE, CWE, ATT&CK or CAPEC — is verified against MITRE's data
  • An active-exploitation claim is verified against CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
4

Relevant

Warning

Does the reference support the claim beside it?

  • The NIST reference is about the nearby topic, not merely present on the page
  • The MITRE reference is about the nearby topic, not merely present on the page
  • The CISA reference is about the nearby topic, not merely present on the page

Checks only apply where the page's topic calls for them, so a pricing page is never marked down for failing to cite MITRE.

Active-exploit claims

“Actively exploited” is a claim, and it gets verified like one

It is the single most repeated line in vulnerability marketing and the easiest to get wrong. If a page says a vulnerability is under active exploitation, GrackerAI checks that against CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog and marks an unverified claim critical.

Listed on KEV

The claim stands, and the page keeps the credit for making it.

Not listed on KEV

Flagged critical, with the fix spelled out: verify the claim against a source, or remove it. An unverified active-exploit claim costs more trust than it buys.

Generated content

A model cannot cite an id that was never resolved

The guardrail is structural rather than editorial. Identifiers are resolved against the authorities first, and anything the model writes that is not in that resolved set does not survive into the draft.

How the guardrail works

  • Identifiers are resolved against the authority before the draft is written
  • Any id the model produced that is not in the resolved set is stripped out
  • What survives is the set that was verified, not the set that sounded right

Where verification is enforced

  • Standards scores as its own layer, beside technical, content and AEO
  • A fabricated or mistyped id is a critical finding, not a footnote
  • Every finding arrives with the fix written out, not just a red flag
Automated topic sweep

The vulnerabilities worth writing about find you

Security moves faster than a content calendar. GrackerAI sweeps new CVEs and security news on a schedule, scores each one for how exploitable it is and how much it touches your products, and turns what survives into monitored prompts.

SignalWeightWhere it comes from
Listed in the CISA KEV catalog35%Decays from the date CISA added it, on a 30-day half-life
EPSS exploit-prediction probability30%Pulled per-CVE from FIRST.org
CVSS severity15%Normalised from the NVD record
Publication recency12%30-day half-life from disclosure
Ransomware-linked8%Flagged from the KEV entry

Exploitability is only half of it. Each candidate is also bucketed by how closely it touches you, and the two are combined before anything becomes a prompt.

Full weight

Your own products

Matched against the product names and keywords on your brand profile

0.8

Named competitors

The vulnerabilities and stories your buyers will compare you against

0.6

Category-level

Movement in your category that shapes the answer without naming anyone

  • New CVEs and security news are swept automatically on a schedule
  • Each item is scored for exploitability and for relevance to your products
  • What survives becomes monitored prompts, deduplicated and capped per product
Sources of record

Every check resolves against a primary source

No intermediary databases and no scraped mirrors. Each identifier is confirmed at the body that issues it.

SourceWhat it isWhat GrackerAI uses it for
NVDNIST National Vulnerability DatabaseCVE records, CVSS severity, product matching
CISA KEVKnown Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogWhether a vulnerability is genuinely being exploited
EPSSExploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST.orgProbability a vulnerability gets exploited
MITRECWE, ATT&CK and CAPEC catalogsWeakness, technique and attack-pattern ids
NIST CSRCComputer Security Resource CenterPublication ids such as SP 800-53 and FIPS 197
Related

Verification is one layer. Here is what it feeds.

Technical AEO Audit

Standards is scored inside the audit, alongside technical, content and AEO readiness, page by page across your site.

See AEO Audit

Content Engine

The same resolved identifier set is what generated security articles are allowed to cite, so drafts arrive already checked.

See Content Engine

Cybersecurity Solutions

How the vertical fits together: security prompt categories, CVE portals, compliance content and the buyers behind them.

See Cybersecurity

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