Executive change: Brinqa appoints David Allen as Chief Technology Officer. Austin, TX - Brinqa has announced the appointment of David Allen as Chief Technology Officer. About Brinqa: Brinqa is an AI-driven exposure management company that helps organizations understand and reduce technology risk by providing a unified, prioritized view of cyber risk across their entire environment. Its platform consolidates and normalizes data from all security tools and data sources, enriches that information with business and threat intelligence, and separates false alarms from real threats so security and IT teams can focus on the work that matters most. Brinqa positions itself as a strategic partner to security teams on the front lines, transforming traditional vulnerability and exposure management into a proactive, enterprise-wide risk management capability that supports decisions organizations can confidently defend. The company emphasizes structure, clarity, and momentum in managing complex attack surfaces, delivering faster remediation, improved security posture, and measurable reductions in business risk through its unified exposure management platform. Founded with the mission of redefining vulnerability and exposure management for modern enterprises, Brinqas AI-powered foundation is built to be trusted by leading organizations and to serve as the single source of truth for human teams and AI agents acting on cyber risk. Brinqa 3700 N Capital of Texas Hwy Suite 350 Austin, TX 78746 Phone: 512-372-1004 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/brinqa/

Brinqa, an enterprise security exposure management platform, reported strong first-half 2026 performance with new customer bookings more than doubling year-over-year. Existing customer deployments expanded fourfold during the period. The Austin-based company launched new AI capabilities including AI Attribution Agent and AI Deduplication Agent, designed to automate ownership identification and eliminate duplicate findings. Brinqa also introduced a Bring Your Own AI model, allowing customers to connect preferred AI models to its platform. The firm rebranded its expert team to Forward Deployed Engineering Team and made four executive appointments across AI, engineering, finance, and product innovation. Ron Dovich was named Chief AI and Automation Officer, David Allen as Chief Technology Officer, and Steve Biagioni as Chief Financial Officer. Brinqa was recognised as a Notable Vendor in Forrester's Proactive Security Platforms Landscape and integrated with Horizon3.ai whilst joining Google Cloud Marketplace.

Brinqa launches BYOAI to let security teams use any AI on their own exposure data. Brinqa announced BYOAI (Bring Your Own AI), a capability that enables organizations to connect any AI agent, large language model (LLM), or automation platform to Brinqa's trusted exposure intelligence layer. As enterprises accelerate AI adoption, they face a new challenge. The real challenge is ensuring every AI system operates from trusted, high-fidelity intelligence that reflects the organization's actual risk environment. BYOAI enables organizations to leverage the AI investments they have already made while ensuring those systems reason over a common source of enriched, correlated exposure intelligence. For enterprises, the difference between AI that delivers meaningful business outcomes and AI that creates noise comes down to the quality, context, and trustworthiness of the intelligence behind every decision, not the model you're using. Organizations are increasingly deploying AI across security operations, vulnerability management, cloud security, governance, risk management, engineering, and executive reporting. While each team may have different goals, they all depend on accurate and trusted information. Without a common intelligence layer, AI systems often operate on fragmented data, creating inconsistent priorities, slower coordination, and reduced confidence in outcomes. BYOAI changes that dynamic by democratizing access to Brinqa's curated exposure intelligence. Teams can use the AI tools, agents, and platforms that best fit their needs while operating from the same trusted source of truth. This creates consistency across teams, improves decision quality, accelerates collaboration, and helps organizations respond to risk with greater speed and confidence. "AI is rapidly becoming the interface through which teams make decisions and take action," said Dan Pagel, CEO at Brinqa. "Organizations today have no shortage of AI options. What determines whether those systems create real value is the quality of the intelligence they run on. BYOAI allows organizations to use the models and platforms that work best for them while grounding every decision in a curated, correlated view of their exposure landscape. That's how AI creates real business value." BYOAI works because of Brinqa's CyberRisk Graph, which normalizes, enriches, and correlates exposure intelligence across infrastructure, cloud, identity, application security, and business systems. Through the Brinqa Query Language (BQL) API and Model Context Protocol (MCP), organizations can securely provide trusted exposure intelligence to AI agents, copilots, automation platforms, and reasoning models while maintaining governance, access controls, and auditability. Brinqa believes the future of enterprise AI is an ecosystem of specialized AI systems, each built to solve a different problem, working from a common intelligence layer. Brinqa will continue to deliver AI powered capabilities for key exposure management functions, while BYOAI ensures customers can leverage the AI platforms of their choice on top of the same trusted exposure intelligence foundation. This includes Brinqa's own AI agents, built to power confident, continuous exposure management, though customers are equally free to bring their own. "Most vendors want customers to adopt their AI," said Brad Hibbert, Chief Strategy Officer at Brinqa. "We believe customers should have the freedom to use the AI that works best for their business. Our role is to provide the trusted exposure intelligence that powers better decisions across every team, every workflow, and every AI platform. Organizations that pair flexibility in AI with discipline in the intelligence those systems run on will always have an advantage." As organizations scale AI adoption, consistent, high-fidelity exposure intelligence becomes the critical foundation for better decision making, stronger coordination, and greater business resilience. BYOAI gives enterprises the flexibility to choose any AI while ensuring every system operates from the same source of truth. Topics: AI David Marshall has been involved in the technology industry for over 30 years, and he's been working with virtualization software since 1999. He became a pioneer in the virtualization and cloud computing field - one of the few people in the industry allowed to work with Alpha stage server virtualization software from industry leaders: VMware (ESX Server), Connectix and Microsoft (Virtual Server).Through the years, he has invented, marketed and helped launch a number of successful software companies and products. David holds a BS degree in Finance, an Information Technology Certification, and a number of vendor certifications. He's also co-authored two published books: "VMware ESX Essentials in the Virtual Data Center" and "Advanced Server Virtualization: VMware and Microsoft Platforms in the Virtual Data Center" and was the technical editor for two popular Virtualization "For Dummies" books. With his remaining spare time, David founded and operates one of the oldest independent modern data center publications, VMblog.com. And co-founded CloudCow.com, a publication dedicated to Cloud Computing. Since 2009, and each year thereafter, David has been honored with the vExpert distinction by VMware by Broadcom for his evangelism.Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmarshall/