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Nagomi views exposures differently, not as endless CVE lists, but as contextual, dynamic, and comprehensive conditions that actually determine what gets fixed and who fixes it. With Exposure Lens powering Nagomi Control, CTEM moves from theory to execution, giving teams the ability to prioritize and mobilize with confidence.
When we started Nagomi, our mission was simple: stop preventable breaches. That mission still drives us, because behind every breach is a team that never should have been left drowning in dashboards, alerts, and headlines.
The CTEM market is heating up, but too much of the focus is still stuck on visibility. I keep hearing the same story. teams handed endless lists and scores that don’t help them decide what to do next. What makes the real difference is turning that noise into action: knowing which exposures matter, who’s responsible, and how to close the gap.
What We Kept Hearing
What we kept hearing from the field was striking in its consistency. No matter the size of the company or the maturity of the program, the frustrations all sounded the same. Across dozens of conversations, every security leader said some version of the same thing:
- “I’ve got thousands of criticals, but only five really matter to the business.”
- “My team spends half our week manually piecing together context before we can even think about remediation.”
- “Even with a pile of tools, IAM misconfigs and drifted controls still slip by.”
The deeper we looked, the clearer it became: tools and teams don’t talk to each other. Context is fragmented, and execution grinds to a halt.
Enterprises today juggle more than 70 security tools, yet less than one in five critical findings ever gets fixed before attackers exploit them. Misconfigurations and drift account for most breaches, not exotic zero-days. And analysts still lose hours every week manually stitching together siloed data instead of closing risk.
That gap between effort and outcome is exactly why we built Nagomi Control, powered by our Exposure Lens engine.
Why Our Lens on Exposure Is Different
Most of the industry reduces exposure to CVEs and scanner reports. That’s the shallow end of the pool. We define exposure as any condition an attacker can exploit: unpatched vulns, misconfigured IAM, missing safeguards, toxic combinations across assets and identities.
At Nagomi, exposure isn’t a list. It’s the intersection of assets, controls, vulnerabilities, and threats. Correlating those four pillars reveals which risk actually matters to the business.
A Nagomi Exposure is:
- Contextual: Is the asset critical? Is it being exploited?
- Dynamic: It shifts with control drift and attacker behavior.
- Comprehensive: It spans vulnerabilities, misconfigs, coverage gaps, and identity risks.
“Exposure management isn’t about chasing every vulnerability. It’s about knowing which exposures matter, why they matter, and how to close them before attackers take advantage.”
From our eBook: Crossing the CAASM: Managing Exposure Through a Lens of Control
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This correlation is the backbone of prioritization and mobilization. Without it, you’re stuck in visibility. With it, you finally know where to act.
CTEM, Made Real
CTEM lays out the stages: discover, prioritize, validate, mobilize. But most “CTEM platforms” never get past stage one. They stop at visibility.
With Nagomi Control, powered by Exposure Lens, correlation and aggregation are everything. By pulling the full picture together, the platform turns scattered findings into an execution plan. It unifies vulnerabilities, controls, identities, and business context into one model, then correlates them to expose real attack paths. From there, it routes the right fix to the right owner, tracks progress, and proves reduction.
The result: exposure data that fuels prioritization and mobilization – the difference between CTEM as a slide and CTEM as an operational reality.
Execution Defines the Future of Security
Exposure management won’t be solved by one more dashboard. It gets solved when the right data fuels decisions and the right teams can act at scale. That’s why we built Nagomi Control, and it’s the difference we’ve staked our company on.
Execution – not visibility – will define the next decade of cybersecurity. And exposure reduction will be measured by how fast teams can move from findings to fixes. That’s the future we’re building toward.
If you want to see what execution looks like in practice, we’d be glad to show you.
Ready to see exposure through a new lens and finally shrink it? [Let’s talk.]
