Finding Balance at Full Speed: What 2025 Proved and Where Nagomi Is Headed

Fragmentation is the real security crisis. In 2025, Nagomi helped Fortune 30 and Fortune 200 companies replace disconnected tools with a continuous, correlated view of their exposure posture, and the results made the case for preemptive security louder than ever.

Exposure management earned a lot of attention recently. Inside organizations, the reality looked different than what is being reported. Tools expanded. Alerts overlapped. Teams spent more time reconciling systems than reducing exposure. The problem wasn’t data. It was fragmentation.

That shaped everything we did in 2025.

Three years ago, we started Nagomi with a thesis: security teams are drowning in tools that don’t operate as a system. The people accountable for outcomes are left stitching context together by hand. The market didn’t need another product. It needed operational truth – what’s deployed, what’s effective, what’s exposed, and what’s already mitigated, all in one place.

Every customer conversation this year reinforced that thesis. We grew 9x in 24 months. Fortune 30 and Fortune 200 companies run Nagomi in production. Retention is strong, and customers expand because the platform delivers what they couldn’t get before.

The Weight Security Leaders Carry

Our 2025 CISO Pressure Index surveyed 100 U.S. security leaders. 87% said pressure increased. Two-thirds feel burned out weekly or daily. 40% considered walking away. 65% manage 20+ security products. 58% reported incidents their tools were meant to prevent.

More tooling hasn’t made anyone safer. It created blind spots between systems. Exposure lives in those blind spots.

We wanted to hear from the people behind those numbers, so we created the Holding the Line docuseries. What started as conversations about pressure became something different: leaders describing a job they chose deliberately, a job they love. They carry tension so the business moves forward. Success is quiet. Failure is public.

Those conversations changed how we think about building.

Why AI Changes Everything, and Why Preemptive Security Matters Now

The attack surface isn’t what it was two years ago. AI is compressing the entire exploitation cycle. Reconnaissance, weaponization, delivery. What used to take weeks now takes minutes. Adversaries aren’t waiting for your scan cycle to finish. They’re moving faster than any reactive workflow can keep up with.

That changes the math completely. You can’t afford to find, score, ticket, and wait anymore. By the time that loop closes, the window is gone.

This is why preemptive security is no longer a nice-to-have. It’s becoming the baseline. Organizations need to understand their exposure posture continuously, before an attacker tests it for them. Not after the breach. Not after the audit. Before.
The shift from reactive to preemptive is the most important trend in security right now, and it’s accelerating.

Exposure Lens: Operational Truth

Every major product decision we made in 2025 started with one question: how do we reduce uncertainty in a way disconnected tools cannot while restoring balance to security teams? Enter Exposure Lens.

The first pain was context.

A CVE on a low-value asset behind layered compensating controls does not carry the same risk as a misconfigured endpoint on an internet-facing privileged system with no MFA. Security leaders know this intuitively. Their tools do not.

Exposure Lens correlates four dimensions: assets, controls, exposures, and active threat intelligence with business context. It surfaces the toxic combinations that create real, attacker-ready conditions. Exploited vulnerabilities on devices without effective endpoint protection. Privileged accounts with incomplete MFA enrollment. Internet-facing systems with outdated configurations and missing compensating controls.

But correlation was not the goal. Certainty was.

Exposure Lens evaluates control coverage, identifies drift, validates compensating defenses, and determines whether a condition is already mitigated or truly exposed. It ranks exposure by business impact. Not a score. A decision.

When we released our Illusion of Maturity report, the data confirmed what Exposure Lens surfaces daily. 75% of organizations show gaps in core security controls. Only about 30% of assets demonstrate strong coverage across identity, endpoint, and awareness simultaneously. Controls fail together. Exposure concentrates where those failures overlap.

This is operational truth. And it is the foundation for everything that follows.

From Insight to Execution: The Shift to Agentic Exposure Ops

From Insight to Execution: The Shift to Agentic Exposure Ops

59% of CISOs we surveyed cite agentic AI as a near-term threat. At the same time, 82% face pressure to use AI to reduce cost and increase output. That tension is real.

Our view is simple: AI layered onto fragmented workflows amplifies inconsistency. AI grounded in verified control intelligence compresses exposure.

The pace of exploitation has collapsed from weeks to minutes. Traditional security workflows were built for a slower era. They identify findings, assign scores, open tickets, and wait. That model assumed time between discovery and impact.

There is no time.

Today the breakdown is operational. Vulnerability management identifies. SecOps remediates. Governance reports. Each function runs on different data, different tooling, and different definitions of completion. Exposure forms in the gaps between them.

That is why we are building Exposure Ops.

Everything we delivered in 2025, correlated asset intelligence, analytical control validation, exposure modeling across business units, was designed as the foundation for agentic execution. Not better dashboards. A system.

In 2026, we put that system into motion.

Agentic exposure operations built on Exposure Lens. AI agents that continuously investigate exposure conditions, validate protection against live threats, orchestrate remediation across existing tools and teams, and reassess defenses as environments change.

Not automation layered on top of broken process. A unified operating model grounded in verified context.

2025 proved the system.
2026 operationalizes it at scale.

To every customer, partner, investor, and security leader who trusted us, thank you. You shaped what we built in 2025. You will shape what comes next.