Honored to Be Named a Challenger in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Exposure Assessment Platforms

We’re proud to share that Nucleus Security has been named a Challenger in the inaugural 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Exposure Assessment Platforms (EAPs) — recognized for our completeness of vision and ability to execute.

This marks a significant milestone not only for Nucleus, but for the evolution of our entire industry. For the first time, Gartner has formally recognized Exposure Assessment Platforms as a distinct category.  This move also validates the evolution from vulnerability management to exposure management.

From Vulnerability Management to Exposure Management

Traditional vulnerability management programs were built around periodic scanning and patching. But today’s threat landscape demands a continuous, contextual, and risk-based approach. Attackers aren’t waiting for your next scan window. They move faster than ever, exploiting new exposures within hours of disclosure.

Exposure Assessment Platforms are the tools that will drive this stage of evolution. They bring a more holistic, continuous, and intelligent approach to organizational risk by unifying vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, compliance issues, and correlating threat intelligence across every attack surface.

This shift mirrors the journey many of our customers have already taken with Nucleus; moving from fragmented scanner outputs to unified, data-driven vulnerability and exposure management programs that deliver measurable risk reduction.

How Nucleus Is Defining Exposure Management

When our founders set out to build the Nucleus platform, they brought years of hands-on experience running large-scale, complex vulnerability management programs for the intelligence community. They knew the challenges all too well:

• Dozens of disconnected tools generating millions of daily findings
• Manual processes that simply don’t scale
• Little to no organizational visibility across assets, applications, and owners
• No clear way to prioritize or measure risk reduction

The result was a platform purpose-built to unify, automate, and operationalize vulnerability and exposure management by bringing together asset, vulnerability, and threat data into a unified view. By enriching vulnerability data with real-time exploitability intelligence and risk-based automation, Nucleus helps enterprises effectively drive prioritized action and measurable risk reduction.

It’s this approach that has become the foundation of modern exposure management.

Recognition of Our Approach and Our Customers’ Success

Being recognized by Gartner reflects both our technology and our community.  Our progress is driven by the partnership and collaboration we share with our customers.

Their success is what truly differentiates us. The fact that Nucleus is the highest-positioned Challenger in Ability to Execute is a testament to the tangible outcomes our customers achieve: accelerated remediation, measurable risk reduction, and the ability to scale exposure management across complex, global environments.

Looking Ahead

This recognition reinforces our commitment to our mission — to help organizations conquer the chaos of vulnerability and exposure management by unifying data, simplifying workflows, and driving intelligent real risk reduction at scale.

As exposure management continues to mature, we remain focused on driving innovation for and with our customers, automating the manual, eliminating the noise, and turning visibility into focused action.

We’re honored to be recognized, and even more excited for what’s ahead.

Source: Gartner, “Magic Quadrant for Exposure Assessment Platform,” Mitchell Schneider, Dhivya Poole, Jonathan Nunez, November 10, 2025 Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in our research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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