Reduce Your Exploitable CVE Surface Before Attackers Do

Open Source Risk Is Growing Faster Than Traditional Security Programs Can Respond.

Financial institutions are accelerating software delivery with AI, open source and cloud-native development. But every dependency, package and container introduces potential vulnerabilities that expand your attack surface.

The challenge isn't simply finding CVEs.

It's reducing the window between discovery and remediation before those vulnerabilities become exploitable.

Introduction Athena

Athena is an industry coalition designed to identify, coordinate, and remediate open-source vulnerabilities at scale - before attackers can weaponize them.

Backed by leading financial institutions, technology providers, and security organizations, Athena enables a proactive approach to open-source security by combining coordinated vulnerabilities research, rapid remediation, and ecosystem-wide collaboration.

Why Financial Services Leaders Are Paying Attention

The AI Era Has Changed the Threat Landscape

AI is helping organizations ship software faster than ever. It's also helping adversaries discover vulnerabilities faster than ever. Traditional vulnerability management approaches were built for a world where defenders could react after disclosure. Today's reality requires organizations to identify and remediate risks before they become public attack vectors.

Key Challenges Facing Financial Institutions

• Growing dependence on open-source software
• Increasing regulatory scrutiny and compliance requirements
• Expanding software supply chains
• AI-driven threat discovery accelerating attacker capabilities

How Athena Helps Reduce Exploitable Risk

• Proactive Vulnerability Discovery - Athena focuses on identifying high-impact vulnerabilities before public disclosure, reducing the opportunity for exploitation. 
• Coordinated Remediation - Security researchers, maintainers, and participating organizations collaborate to rapidly develop and distribute fixes. 
• Ecosystem-Level Defense - Rather than addressing vulnerabilities one at a time. Athena promotes systematic remediation strategies that improve resilience across entire open-source ecosystems. 
• Reduced Exposure Windows - Organizations gain access to security improvements earlier, helping reduce the time between vulnerability identification and mitigation.

Executive Roundtable - AI & Open Source Risk:

Reducing the Exploitable CVE Surface in Financial Services

Join senior cybersecurity, software supply chain, risk and technology leaders for an executive discussion on:

• How AI is reshaping software security risk
• The growing challenges of open-source vulnerability management
• Strategies to reduce exploitable CVE exposure
• The role of coordinated industry initiatives like Athena
• Practical approaches for securing modern software supply chains

This session is designed for CISOs, security architects, engineering leaders, risk executives and technology decision makers navigating the next generation of software security challenges.

Build Trust Into Your Software Supply Chain

As software development accelerates, vulnerability management must evolve from reactive patching to proactive risk reduction.

Athena represents a new model for securing the open-source ecosystem - one built on collaboration, early detection and coordinated remediation.

Ready to learn how leading financial institutions are reducing exploitable software risk?

Register for the executive roundtable below.