Horizon3.ai, the AI-native proactive security leader, and Brinqa, a leader in AI-powered exposure management, announced a strategic technology partnership designed to help enterprises operationalize Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM), strengthen risk-based vulnerability management (RBVM) programs, and advance Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV) initiatives through validated, attacker-informed exposure intelligence.
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The partnership brings together Horizon3.ai’s NodeZero® AI-native Proactive Security Platform and the Brinqa Exposure Management platform to help organizations prioritize and reduce the exposures most likely to lead to ransomware, operational disruption, and data compromise.
As enterprise attack surfaces continue to expand across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments, security teams are overwhelmed by disconnected findings, duplicate alerts, and severity-based prioritization models that often fail to distinguish between theoretical findings and exposures that create meaningful business risk. By integrating Horizon3.ai’s attack path intelligence and autonomous pentesting insights with Brinqa’s AI-powered exposure correlation and remediation orchestration capabilities, organizations can focus remediation efforts on the exposures attackers can actually exploit.
“Attackers do not think in CVEs or isolated findings. They think in objectives, attack paths, and business impact,” said Snehal Antani, CEO and co-founder of Horizon3.ai. “NodeZero continuously uncovers exploitable attack paths and shows how attackers can move through complex environments. By integrating that intelligence into Brinqa’s exposure management platform, organizations can validate real-world exposure, prioritize what matters most, and reduce risk based on what attackers can actually exploit instead of assumptions.”
NodeZero delivers continuous adversarial exposure validation by uncovering exploitable weaknesses, credential exposures, privilege escalation risks, and chained attack paths across enterprise environments. Horizon3.ai’s Threat Actor Intelligence and Vulnerability Risk Intelligence capabilities further enrich prioritization by helping organizations understand which exposures create the greatest operational and business risk.
Brinqa ingests and correlates those insights with asset intelligence, business context, threat data, ownership attribution, and remediation workflows through its CyberRisk Graph™ to help organizations continuously prioritize, mobilize, and measure exposure reduction efforts across security, infrastructure, cloud, and application teams.
Together, the companies help organizations:
- Prioritize vulnerabilities and exposures based on validated exploitability, attack paths, and business impact
- Enable attack-path-informed prioritization and remediation across complex enterprise environments
- Reduce remediation noise by focusing teams on exposures most likely to be targeted by attackers
- Correlate offensive security insights with enterprise exposure and operational context
- Improve remediation coordination and ownership attribution across distributed environments
- Operationalize CTEM, RBVM, and AEV initiatives with greater visibility and measurable progress
- Continuously validate whether remediation efforts are effectively reducing real-world exposure
“The path to compromise is rarely a single critical vulnerability. It’s a chain of low severity findings that no scanner would flag as a priority on its own,” said Dan Pagel, CEO at Brinqa. “Horizon3.ai shows defenders the path. Brinqa prioritizes what matters, with full business context, and automates the fix. That’s the decision and automation plane exposure management has been missing.”
The partnership reflects growing enterprise demand for exposure management strategies that move beyond severity-based vulnerability management toward continuous validation and prioritization based on real-world attacker behavior.
The integration will support organizations across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments, helping security leaders unify offensive validation, exposure intelligence, and remediation orchestration into a more operationalized and continuous approach to cyber risk reduction.
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