What are smart alerts?

Smart Alerts help you configure Cytidel Recon to filter through the noise and only notify you about vulnerabilities that matter to your organisation.

Instead of monitoring thousands of vulnerabilities manually, Smart Alerts continuously track Cytidel’s intelligence data and notify you when new risks match the conditions you define.

These alerts allow you to focus on the vulnerabilities most relevant to your vendors, technologies, and threat priorities.

How smart alerts work

Smart Alerts monitor Cytidel’s intelligence pipeline in real time, including:

• 300,000+ CVEs
• 40,000+ vendors
• threat intelligence signals from multiple sources

You can create alert rules based on criteria such as:

• Vendors
• Intel tags (for example CISA KEV, Proof-of-Concept, or Known Threat Actor)
• Risk rating
• CVSS score
• EPSS score

When a vulnerability matches your alert conditions, Recon highlights it in the platform and can notify you via email alerts.

Why use smart alerts

Security teams often face thousands of vulnerability alerts, many of which are not relevant to their environment.

Smart Alerts help reduce this noise by focusing only on vulnerabilities that match your monitoring rules.

With Smart Alerts you can:

• Monitor what matters – Track vulnerabilities related to the vendors and technologies you care about.
• Respond faster – Receive early warning signals when new risks emerge, without waiting for NVD updates.
• Reduce alert fatigue – Avoid scanning through large volumes of irrelevant alerts.
• Stay confident – Ensure you don’t miss critical vulnerabilities affecting your environment.