Your application is the blind spot. See what’s reachable inside.

You heard the problem at FutureCon. Now see it in your own app

At FutureCon, we talked about why the application layer is the deepest attack surface and the least watched. Releases have gone from a couple of times a year to ten times a day, and SAST, DAST, WAF, and EDR each see something, but none of them sees what happens inside a running application. See how Mythos changed the picture for runtime defense.

Attackers have also gotten faster. The average time to exploit after public disclosure fell from 63 days in 2018 to about 5 days in 2024 and 2025, per Rapid7’s 2026 Global Threat Landscape Report.

What CVE Shield does

CVE Shield is runtime protection delivered as part of Contrast ADR. It works in three steps.

It confirms which CVEs are actually reachable in your application in production, so you know which ones matter. It detects live exploitation attempts, including AI-generated payloads. Then it blocks them using a microsandbox scoped to the specific vulnerable method, so the rest of your application runs untouched.

Every shield can run in monitor mode before you switch it to block mode, and you decide that per CVE. There is no global on or off switch. CVE Shield is a compensating control while patches are pending, not a replacement for patching.

One agent, a few minutes, nothing to pay

One agent install, with no code changes and no restart. No credit card, no sales call, and any email works, including a personal Google or GitHub account. CVE Shield supports Java on the JVM today, with Go, Node.js, .NET, and Python planned for the second half of 2026.