Today, we¡¯re introducing Aurora Exposure Management, a new product family at Â鶹¹û¶³ built to help organizations take a more complete and continuous approach to reducing cyber risk. The first two offerings are Aurora Vulnerability Management and Aurora Attack Surface Management. They are designed to work powerfully together, but they can also deliver meaningful value independently, depending on an organization¡¯s priorities, existing architecture, and current stage of security maturity.
Why Exposure Management Matters Now
Security teams have no shortage of data. What they lack, too often, is a clear path from visibility to action. Vulnerability findings sit in one place. Asset data sits in another. Business context, external exposure, identity risk, control coverage, and remediation workflows are often spread across separate tools and teams. The result is familiar: too much noise, too little confidence, and too much time spent trying to piece together what matters most.
A May 2026 incident illustrates why exposure management matters. DigiCert, one of the largest certificate authorities for HTTPs, code signing, and PKI, disclosed a breach where attackers delivered a malicious file through the customer support chat channel and waited to see which support analyst endpoint would enable the file to run.
While the first four delivery attempts were blocked, the fifth attempt succeeded due to basic, but invisible, exposure gaps. On ENDPOINT1, a misconfigured EDR agent was unable to block the malicious payload from being executed. On ENDPOINT2, EDR was missing completely. One misconfigured control and one missing control was all it took.
On five attempts, the attacker had an 80% success rate at finding an endpoint where security controls were misaligned. This mirrors data from our own internal threat and vulnerability research. Our shows environments where endpoint agent deployments aren¡¯t actively managed, agents are missing from nearly a quarter of all devices. This scenario isn¡¯t an anomaly or an outlier for most organizations today. This is why continuous, real-time exposure management extends legacy vulnerability management approaches to help ensure we¡¯re taking a broader approach and not stopping at
This shift has become an important priority for security leaders. Whether the goal is a stronger proactive security program or a broader continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) strategy, the need is the same: understand where risk exists, prioritize what matters most, act faster, and verify that action actually reduced it. This is not about generating more findings. It is about building a more operational model for reducing cyber risk.
AI Is Raising the Stakes
That shift has become even more urgent in 2026. Last month, Anthropic introduced , a defensive cybersecurity initiative built around Claude Mythos Preview, and said the model had already identified thousands of vulnerabilities across critical software. Access is currently limited to launch partners and a small group of additional organizations, but the broader implication for security leaders is clear: capabilities like these will not stay tightly contained forever. Over time, more advanced vulnerability discovery and exploit development will become available to a wide set of threat actors, and defenders need to prepare now for a world of faster discovery, faster weaponization, and less time to react.
That changes the standard for what organizations should expect from their security programs. Periodic scanning and severity-based triage are no longer enough on their own. Teams need broader visibility, better business context, tighter prioritization, and faster execution. In my view, that is exactly why exposure management matters now. It is the discipline that connects what is exposed, what is exploitable, and what should happen next.
Aurora Vulnerability Management: Fix What Matters Faster
To effectively reduce exposure, organizations have to know what to fix and how to take action. That¡¯s why Â鶹¹û¶³¡¯s approach to ?exposure management begins with Aurora Vulnerability Management.
Aurora Vulnerability Management represents a clear evolution of Â鶹¹û¶³ Managed Risk, helping organizations see, prioritize, and remediate what matters faster. It delivers unified visibility across known and unknown assets, applies exploitability and real-world threat signals to focus attention, and supports action through ITSM automation, AI-powered guidance, customizable remediation SLAs, and on-demand reporting. The goal is simple: give teams a practical way to reduce risk by turning vulnerability management into an operational discipline rather than a reporting exercise.
That is also why the launch of Resolve matters. Resolve, the new patch management add-on for Aurora Vulnerability Management, helps address one of the biggest failure points in most vulnerability programs: the gap between finding an issue and actually fixing it. Discovery is important, but execution is where risk is reduced. By bringing automated patching directly into the workflow, Resolve helps customers move faster from prioritization to remediation and makes Aurora Vulnerability Management a stronger foundation for broader exposure reduction.
Aurora Attack Surface Management: See More of What Matters
Â鶹¹û¶³¡¯s approach to Aurora Exposure Management extends with Aurora Attack Surface Management, which broadens what security teams can see and understand across the environment.
Early this year, Â鶹¹û¶³ acquired Sevco Security, whose approach to asset intelligence and exposure assessment had already been recognized as a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner? Magic Quadrant? for Exposure Assessment Platforms (1). That capability now becomes Aurora Attack Surface Management: a solution designed to continuously discover assets, identify security coverage gaps and broader exposures, prioritize risk with business context, in addition to threat context, and verify remediation progress across internal, external, cloud, and end-user environments.
This matters because many of the most important exposure questions sit outside the boundaries of a traditional vulnerability management tool. Security teams need to understand not only where vulnerabilities exist, but also where protections are missing, where inventories are stale or incomplete, and where assets are unmanaged. They also need the ability to bring together data from across vulnerability management, managed detection and response, endpoint detection and response, identity, cloud, and other security and IT sources to develop a more complete view of risk.
Just as important, teams need the context to determine which exposures matter most. That means understanding which assets store sensitive data, which systems support critical operations, which servers are tied to revenue-generating services, and which users, including executives and other high-risk employees, may be more likely to be targeted. Aurora Attack Surface Management is built to help answer those questions by aggregating, correlating, and deduplicating data from across the environment to create a more complete, current, and security-grade view of the attack surface so teams can prioritize based on real business impact, not technical severity alone.
Better Together, Open By Design
The value of Aurora Exposure Management becomes even stronger when these offerings are used together.
Aurora Vulnerability Management provides the operational engine to identify, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities and software misconfigurations. Aurora Attack Surface Management is meant to strengthen the asset and exposure context that those decisions depend on by expanding visibility, surfacing missing protections, and helping validate that remediation truly reduced risk. Together, they help create a more continuous path from visibility to prioritization to remediation. But they are not dependent on each other to deliver value. Customers can start with the problem they most need to solve today and expand from there.
Just as important, our approach is open by design. Customers should not have to rip and replace existing investments to improve outcomes. Aurora Attack Surface Management is built to integrate with a broad set of endpoint, vulnerability management, identity, cloud, and other IT and cybersecurity data sources, including tools that already play important roles in a customer¡¯s environment.
The goal is to deliver the best visibility, the best context, and ultimately the best outcomes. In many environments, Aurora Vulnerability Management and Aurora Attack Surface Management will be strongest together. In others, they will deliver value independently.
A More Proactive Path Forward
Security leaders do not need another disconnected category to manage. They need a more practical way to reduce risk across the environments they actually run.
That is where I believe the market is headed: toward a more continuous, more operational approach to proactive security. Aurora Exposure Management is our approach to helping customers take that step with greater visibility, better context, and more confidence in the actions they take.
(1) Gartner Disclaimer
Source: Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Exposure Assessment Platforms, Mitchell Schneider, Dhivya Poole, Jonathan Nunez, 10 November, 2025
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