Inside Exposure Lens: How Nagomi Maps What’s Defended (and What’s Not)

Security teams face thousands of vulnerabilities daily, but lack the context to know which ones truly matter. Exposure Lens, the engine powering Nagomi’s Control Platform, solves this by combining vulnerability data with defense coverage, business context, and active threat intelligence, revealing which exposures are both live and undefended so teams can focus their efforts where it counts most.

Security teams aren’t short on data. They’re short on context. Every day, practitioners face thousands of vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and findings that all look urgent. The real challenge isn’t identifying exposures. It’s knowing which ones actually matter, which are already covered, and which could truly put the organization at risk.

Nagomi’s Exposure Lens, the engine powering the Nagomi Control Platform, was built to solve this problem. It helps teams see what’s defended and what’s not, so they can act fast on the exposures that matter most.

Why Prioritization Is So Hard

Traditional exposure management platforms do a good job of surfacing issues. What they don’t do is put those issues into context. A critical CVE might not be a critical risk if existing controls already defend against it. A low-severity misconfiguration might be far more dangerous when paired with other gaps.

This lack of context leads to wasted time, delayed response, and missed high-impact exposures. Security teams need a way to prioritize based on the full attack surface, and not siloed prioritization lists.

How Exposure Lens Changes the Game

Exposure Lens adds the missing context layer. It combines vulnerability and misconfiguration data with defense coverage, business context, and threat intelligence on active campaigns. The result is a clear, prioritized view of what needs attention first.

It’s more than a dashboard. It’s a way to focus limited security resources on the exposures that are both real and actionable.

How It Works

Exposure Lens brings together critical organizational and threat data, then uses Nagomi’s correlation engine to show exactly what’s defended and what’s not. This is where the real value comes to life. Learn more about Exposure Lens and see it firsthand in our webinar, “A New Lens on Exposure.”

1. The Data Foundation: A Complete View of the Organization

Everything starts with data. Exposure Lens ingests and normalizes multiple categories of information that together create a complete and continuously updated picture of risk.

• Assets: A unified inventory of systems, identities, and environments that make up the organization’s digital footprint.
• Exposures: Vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, control coverage gaps, and identity security issues, all mapped to the assets they affect.
• Business Context: Metadata such as business units, asset criticality, and ownership details that allow teams to understand where exposures matter most.
• Threat Intelligence: Real-world data on active campaigns, exploited vulnerabilities, and attacker behaviors, used to highlight which exposures are being targeted right now.

By combining these sources, Exposure Lens ensures that prioritization reflects reality, not static vulnerability scores or siloed findings. It gives teams a dynamic view of their environment, grounded in both what they own and what’s happening in the wild.

2. The Correlation Engine: Where the Magic Happens

Once the data foundation is in place, Exposure Lens applies its correlation engine to uncover meaningful relationships between exposures, defenses, and business context.

This is where Nagomi’s approach goes far beyond traditional exposure management. The correlation engine connects the dots to reveal toxic combinations: situations where multiple small issues, combined with missing or weak defenses, form a true path to compromise.

For example:

• A privileged domain account with no MFA enforcement and an expired password policy can expose critical internal systems, even if patching is up to date.
• A coverage gap in endpoint protection, where a high-value workstation lacks EDR enforcement or shows inactive policies, leaves key assets undefended against active campaigns.

The correlation engine also reflects the organization’s actual defensive posture. It understands which controls exist, how they’re configured, and where gaps remain. That means the exposures surfaced by Exposure Lens aren’t just “what’s vulnerable.” They’re “what’s vulnerable and unprotected.”

By fusing exposure data with defense awareness, the correlation engine delivers the most relevant, context-rich picture of organizational risk available today. It’s the intelligence layer that turns endless findings into a small set of meaningful, prioritized actions.

3. Next Steps: Aligning with Business Risk

Once the most critical exposures are surfaced, Exposure Lens allows teams to focus on what matters most to their business.

Every organization defines risk differently, and Exposure Lens makes it easy to align analysis and response with that unique context. Teams can:

• See which exposures affect the most assets to identify widespread weaknesses.
• Filter by specific business units to focus on areas with the highest operational importance.
• Drill into specific assets most affected to understand the precise impact and scope.

This flexibility helps security teams move from generic prioritization to business-aligned action. They can plan remediation, assign ownership, and demonstrate measurable progress, based on what truly affects the organization’s most valuable assets.

4. Actionable Output: Turning Insight into Action

Finally, the results are operationalized so you can take action. Exposure Lens doesn’t just say what’s broken. It gives defenders the exact exposures that need to be fixed or mitigated first. This means faster response, less wasted effort, and better alignment between security operations and real risk.

What Makes This Different

Most exposure management tools stop at the list of findings. They don’t understand misconfigurations, they can’t account for defense coverage, and they lack real business context.

Exposure Lens is different. It’s control-first. It connects exposures to actual risk, allowing teams to prioritize precisely where attackers are most likely to strike.

Here’s what this looks like in practice:

• A critical CVE looks urgent, but strong control coverage means it’s already mitigated.
• A lower severity misconfiguration, combined with an unpatched vulnerability and lacking controls, becomes a top priority.

Exposure Lens makes that distinction instantly, so defenders can act before attackers do.

See Your Defended and Undefended Exposures

Security teams don’t need more noise. They need clarity. Exposure Lens gives them exactly that.

See what’s defended, what’s not, and what needs your attention first.
Schedule a demo to experience Exposure Lens in action.