AttackIQ, Brinqa, Guardare and Nagomi Security

About Brinqa

Brinqa sells an exposure management platform that unifies every data source. Brinqa ingests and correlates exposure data into a single foundation where it is deduplicated, attributed, and prioritized by what is exploitable in the environment. Brinqa lets customers bring their own AI agents or use its own AI agents. Brinqa states that vulnerabilities, cloud findings, application risks, identities, and assets all generate signals, and that without structure and context teams are left reacting instead of reducing exposure.^[3]

The Brinqa platform has three layers that work together as a unified system. Brinqa ingests exposure data from over 260 security, IT, cloud, identity, application, and business systems. The Cyber Risk Graph maintains relationships across assets, vulnerabilities, identities, environments, and business context. Brinqa retains historical exposure data and applies consistent metrics for tracking remediation progress over time.^[2][3][5]

The AI Layer fills data gaps, merges duplicate findings, and enriches exposure intelligence. The Brinqa AI Layer applies agentic AI to analyze exposures in context, covering asset relationships, reachability, attack paths, common attacker techniques, observed threat behavior, and mapped mitigation controls. Brinqa has a vulnerability deduplication engine that identifies and merges duplicate findings from different security scanners into a single, consolidated, explainable record. The AI Deduplication Agent consolidates duplicate findings into one record. The AI Attribution Agent uses data patterns to find and fill missing data attributes across the exposure environment. Brinqa customers choose which attributes matter most, such as ownership, business unit, environment classification, and asset criticality, and set confidence thresholds for when AI predictions require human validation. BrinqaIQ enables natural-language queries to find the latest CVE data and remediation guidance and to search Brinqa help documentation. MCP enables machine-to-machine interaction with BrinqaIQ for writing BQL queries, exploring CVEs, and accessing documentation.^[6]

SmartFlows allow users to build drag-and-drop automations that trigger actions such as ticket creation, issue routing, or team notifications when defined conditions are met. Brinqa automations integrate with existing ITSM, ticketing, and engineering tools. Brinqa includes human-in-the-loop controls with configurable confidence thresholds and built-in explainability. Brinqa has acquired PlexTrac, a validation and reporting platform for offensive security and penetration testing teams. Brinqa delivers customized, role-based dashboards and reports on exposure risk for security, IT, and executive stakeholders.^[3][7]

Brinqa applies risk scoring by asset type and environment, and offers visual mapping of exposure across complex infrastructures. Brinqa brings conflicting risk scores from multiple tools into a single, consistent view that incorporates threat intelligence, business context, and asset importance. The Brinqa platform uses AI to pattern match and find missing data in order to identify unknown asset and vulnerabilities owners.^[3]

Brinqa serves retailers with PCI DSS-aligned, data-driven exposure management. Brinqa serves manufacturers with unified IT and OT exposure visibility, risk-based prioritization, and compliance alignment across NIST SP 800-53, ISO 27001, and GDPR. Brinqa enables financial organizations to centralize cyber risk data and maintain NIST SP 800-53, ISO 27001, and GDPR compliance. Brinqa serves insurers with HIPAA, GDPR, and NIST SP 800-53 compliance across distributed environments, both on-premises and in the cloud. Brinqa enables technology and SaaS companies to secure software supply chains and maintain SOC 2 and GDPR compliance from code to cloud. Brinqa supports critical infrastructure providers with unified IT and OT visibility.

Nestlé unifies and automates vulnerability management with Brinqa. Asurion chose Brinqa for the ability to customize how vulnerabilities are viewed and managed. PhonePe Private Limited is an Indian financial services company. PhonePe implemented Brinqa to create a unified risk analytics platform to track, analyze, and score vulnerabilities across its ecosystem. A global technology company modernized its vulnerability and exposure management program with Brinqa. Brinqa has a library of connectors for integrating data from tools like vulnerability scanners, Service Desk, and penetration testing platforms. In that deployment, vulnerability criticality was evaluated using scanner-defined severity, exploit availability, age and popularity, network type, and offense magnitude.^{[2][6][7][8][9][11][12]}

About Guardare

Guardare sells a platform that connects data from existing security tools to uncover exposures, prioritize what matters, and give teams clear next steps across people, devices, software, and cloud. Guardare describes its Unified Exposure Management approach as bringing together vulnerability, asset, threat, human-risk, and security-control information. Guardare finds misconfigurations, gaps, and overlaps in the tools its customers currently use. Guardare connects existing tools rather than replacing them, and provides risk scoring and a unified dashboard.^{[1][4][5][10]}

Guardare connects to endpoint, firewall, identity, cloud, and other IT tools through API integrations. Guardare has 200+ integrations that connect existing IT and security tools through read-only APIs, bringing their data into a shared risk context across users, devices, and applications. Guardare integrates with EDRs, XDRs, firewalls, cloud platforms, IAM tools, and SOAR/SIEM systems. GuardScan is an agent that collects Active Directory over LDAP data for on-premises domains.^[4][6][7]

Guardare builds a unified risk graph of every user, device, and application, flags critical exposures, and ranks them by business impact. Guardare combines classical machine learning and large language models with human oversight. Guardare predicts how each organization could be targeted based on its tech stack, policies, and procedures.^[6]

Guardare was developed in-house with purpose-built AI. Guardare trained its AI on datasets like MITRE and other CVE sources, then expanded it with insights aligned to frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, CMMC, and CIS Controls. Guardare draws from data sources such as MITRE ATT&CK and global CVE databases.^[6]

Guardare gives natural language instructions in order of importance to help lower risk. Guardare translates technical findings into plain-language reports with clear recommendations. Guardare lets teams assign recommendations to people, create Jira tickets, and track recommendation status. Paul Whiteside is the subject of a Guardare case study about a security stack spread across nine tools.^[4][6][8]

Guardare pricing is based on employees with a digital footprint, such as a work email address. Guardare customers are billed annually in advance under their selected 1-year or 3-year contract term. Customers can purchase Guardare directly from the company or through a partner. Guardare shows separate SLED and nonprofit rates. Guardare provides connected exposure visibility across people, devices, software, identity, and cloud. Guardare provides risk-based prioritization to help teams decide what to address first. Guardare provides reporting to help explain findings and progress.^[9]

Guardare offers Support Services 24 hours per day, 7 days per week for Severity Level 1 incidents, via phone and online ticket submission. Guardare uses commercially reasonable efforts to meet a monthly Target Availability of 99.9% for its Subscription Services. Guardare states it will maintain security controls for its Subscription Services, including encryption of data in transit with TLS 1.2 or higher and at rest.^[10]

Guardare says it provides organizations with tools for SMB risk management and risk prioritization.^{[4][6][10][11]}

About Nagomi Security

Nagomi Security sells a platform that turns the tools its customers already own into a coordinated defense. Nagomi states its mission as preventing the preventable breach. Nagomi says security teams have a coordination problem rather than a tool problem. Nagomi says vulnerability scanners flag what is broken, EDRs see what is running, and configuration tools manage what is deployed.^[5]

Nagomi began with the question of whether security controls are actually working. Nagomi's work started as automated security controls assessment and grew into a full operating model for how security teams detect, investigate, remediate, and verify exposure. Nagomi calls that operating model Exposure Ops.^[5]

Nagomi's agents proactively hunt the exposure paths adversaries would actually exploit and surface why it matters, what changed, and how to close it. Customers authorize one-click fixes, and the agents select the path to neutralize each exposure: hardening configs, deploying controls, or patching when ready. Nagomi's agent continuously verifies that fixes hold from the sensor itself, not from a ticket status.^[3]

Eliminators check reachability, evaluate existing controls, and chain what attackers would chain. A team of specialists handles triage, enrichment, correlation, and validation in coordination. When new attacker behavior appears in the wild, Eliminators test it against the customer's environment, controls and chains.^[3]

Nagomi's agents run the full investigation, pick the neutralization path, route the work, and validate the close without prompting. Customers review the case and approve the action. Nagomi connects to the EDR, identity, firewalls, and vulnerability tools its customers already own to build a single, correlated exposure picture. Nagomi says standalone RBVM and CAASM consoles collapse into one agentic operating model.^[3]

Nagomi connects via read-only APIs, so there are no software agents to deploy on endpoints. Agentic Exposure Operations closes exposure at the root. Across identity, attack surface, misconfigurations, and vulnerabilities, Agentic Exposure Operations continuously investigates, catches, neutralizes, and validates the close. Nagomi automatically investigates, neutralizes, and validates every close.^{[1][3][5][7][8][9]}