Fastest-growing Exposure & Vulnerability Management companies, Q3 2026

Cogent Security develops AI-powered vulnerability intelligence solutions for cybersecurity defenders. The company operates Cogent Community, a free platform that provides vulnerability intelligence to help security teams identify and understand security vulnerabilities. Their approach leverages artificial intelligence to analyze and deliver actionable vulnerability information to defenders.

Zafran provides a Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) platform designed to help organizations prioritize and manage vulnerabilities more effectively. The company was founded by cybersecurity leaders who investigated breaches resulting from unpatched known vulnerabilities, recognizing that traditional vulnerability management approaches were insufficient.

Empirical Security is a cybersecurity software company building an AI-driven vulnerability management platform. The company's core product reimagines vulnerability management by applying data science and machine learning to reduce alert noise and improve risk-based prioritization of vulnerabilities.

The platform is grounded in real-world telemetry and is designed to support decision-making rather than simply generating alerts.

Astelia is a cybersecurity company focused on exposure security, founded by veterans of the Israeli national red team with backgrounds in both offensive and defensive security. The company's platform is designed to provide organizations with proof-based visibility into their actual security exposures, moving beyond traditional vulnerability management approaches.

Dux Security is a cybersecurity company that provides an agentic exposure management platform designed to help security teams identify, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities at speed. The company was founded by security veterans and raised a $9M seed round led by Redpoint and TLV Partners.

Nucleus Security provides a vulnerability and exposure management platform that aggregates, prioritizes, and automates remediation of security vulnerabilities across an organization's infrastructure. The platform unifies vulnerability data from over 160 integrated security tools and scanners into a centralized system, enabling security teams to operationalize findings from multiple sources.

RiskProfiler is an external exposure management platform that unifies multiple security capabilities including External Attack Surface Management (EASM), Digital Risk Protection (DRP), Dark Web Intelligence, Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), and Third-Party Risk Management.

Reclaim Security is a cybersecurity company focused on security remediation — specifically on enabling security teams to safely implement fixes without disrupting business operations. The company was founded by practitioners with over 20 years of experience building and managing security programs, and its platform is designed to address the challenge of accumulated security debt.

Surf AI is a cybersecurity platform that automates the identification and remediation of security exposures across enterprise environments. The platform connects to existing systems to aggregate context, trace issues to their owners, and drive resolution without requiring manual handoffs or ticket-based workflows.

• Continuous discovery of security exposures across connected systems
• Automated ownership mapping and dependency tracing
• Impact analysis prior to remediation actions
• End-to-end workflow automation for resolution
• Dormant and guest account cleanup