Managing Cloud Exposures Just Got Easier: Introducing Nucleus Cloud-Native Vulnerability and Exposure Management

Every day, security teams are expected to manage risks in cloud environments that they don’t fully control, can’t always see, and that are constantly changing. Cloud-native assets—such as container workloads, autoscaling groups, and serverless functions—are highly dynamic, appearing, disappearing, and evolving in response to demand and functionality changes. Traditional security tools struggle to track these ephemeral assets, leading security teams to chase transient alerts and address low-priority issues while prolonging exposure to critical risks.  

Nucleus Cloud-Native Vulnerability and Exposure Management (VEM) changes that. With this expansion, the Nucleus Security Platform brings clarity, control, and continuous visibility to the challenges of securing dynamic cloud environments. By unifying data from cloud security tools, stabilizing risk visibility, and automating ownership mapping, Nucleus enables teams to understand, prioritize, and act on critical exposures faster at scale. 

Why Traditional Approaches Fall Short 

Cloud-native services and applications present a rapidly growing attack surface. Securing dynamic clouds is inherently more complex than traditional IT environments. The ephemeral nature of cloud-native assets and their vulnerabilities and misconfigurations makes exposures more difficult to track, map, and remediate. Some of the challenges security teams face include: 

• Scattered visibility – Findings from CSPM, CNAPP, DAST, SAST, and other tools flood security teams with thousands of alerts across various cloud security platforms, making it difficult to prioritize real risks from noise. 
• Severed risk context across version – Many security solutions treat each deployment or updated container image as a separate entity, discarding historical risk context and preventing teams from tracking vulnerabilities across versions. 
• Lacking risk context across run-times – Base images can be deployed across multiple run-time environments, making it difficult to prioritize risks.
• Ownership is unclear – In a cloud environment, responsibility for an asset can change frequently as it is deployed across one or more environments and cloud accounts are owned and managed by different teams. 

You can’t effectively manage risk without context and continuity. This requires a continuous, business-driven approach to exposure management. Without this approach, you’ll be left playing catch-up, reacting to alerts without a clear path to prioritization or resolution. 

That’s why Nucleus Security launched its cloud-native VEM solution with Adaptive Contexts—a solution that transforms how teams manage exposures in high-scale cloud environments. 

The Nucleus Solution: Exposure Management with Context and Continuity 

Nucleus is bridging the gap from fragmented security data to business-aligned risk context and ownership. More than ever, security teams are empowered to prioritize risk and act more efficiently to better protect their organization. 

Unified Cloud Risk Visibility 

Security teams struggle with fragmented data and scattered visibility spread across multiple tools. Nucleus aggregates, normalizes, and deduplicates findings from CSPM, CNAPP, ASPM, DAST, SAST, SCA, and more—helping teams focus on the highest-priority risks while eliminating noise. 

Seamless Integrations Across Your Cloud Stack 

No cloud environment exists in isolation. Nucleus integrates with leading cloud security platforms, enabling security teams to streamline asset management and exposure tracking across AWS, Azure, GCP, and hybrid environments. 

Smart Correlation & Deduplication 

Repeated findings across multiple instances of the same cloud asset create unnecessary noise. Nucleus automatically correlates findings across deployments and versions, preventing redundant alerts and allowing teams to focus on meaningful risk reduction rather than chasing duplicate tickets. 

Adaptive Contexts for Persistent Risk Tracking 

Unlike traditional solutions that reset risk tracking each time a container image or workload is modified, Nucleus preserves historical context, enabling teams to track exposures even as cloud environments evolve. Adaptive Contexts ensures that exposures remain visible across container image updates, workload redeployments, and cloud infrastructure changes—preventing vulnerabilities from being lost due to ephemeral asset behavior. 

Automated Ownership Assignment 

Assigning vulnerabilities to the right teams is one of the most persistent challenges in cloud security. Nucleus automates ownership assignment by mapping vulnerabilities to teams based on asset function, deployment context, and vulnerability severity—reducing time wasted on misrouted tickets and accelerating remediation. This ensures that remediation happens quickly and efficiently, without wasting time on misrouted tickets. 

Why This Matters: Practical Benefits for Security Teams 

Cloud security is a race against time—attackers move fast, and vulnerabilities in cloud-native environments can be exploited in minutes. Without a continuous, exposure-aware approach, security teams risk: 

• Longer exposure windows, increasing the likelihood of cloud assets being exploited. 
• Compliance blind spots, making it harder to track, report, and remediate vulnerabilities. 
• Operational drag, as security teams waste cycles investigating alerts that lack actionable business context. 

With Nucleus Cloud VEM, security teams gain: 

• End-to-end visibility into vulnerabilities across cloud assets, applications, and services 
• A consistent, business-aligned risk context, stabilizing risk tracking across versions and deployments 
• Intelligent automation for risk ownership and remediation, cutting time-to-fix and improving collaboration 

This is the future of cloud-native security—a proactive, continuous, and business-driven approach to managing risk. See how Nucleus Cloud VEM gives you persistent risk visibility in cloud-native environments. Request a demo today.