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Brinqa named a top 10 Exposure Management platform by Security Boulevard. Brinqa has been named by Security Boulevard as one of the "Top 10 Exposure Management Platforms That Truly Reduce Risks" in its February 2026 industry review. The recognition highlights exposure management platforms that help organizations bring clarity to increasingly complex security environments and focus their efforts on reducing real-world exposure. In its review, Security Boulevard evaluated exposure management platforms designed to help organizations reduce risk by bringing structure and clarity to complex security environments. The review emphasizes platforms that go beyond isolated vulnerability findings and instead support understanding exposure across infrastructure, application, and cloud environments, prioritize risk based on context, and carry remediation through to closure. Brinqa was included in the list based on how its platform aligns with these objectives. As outlined in the review, Brinqa aggregates vulnerability and risk data from multiple sources into a centralized view across infrastructure, application, and cloud environments. The review also notes Brinqa's approach to risk prioritization, which is based on customizable scoring models that incorporate factors such as vulnerability severity, asset importance, and business context. Taken together, these elements explain why Brinqa was recognized among platforms focused on prioritization, remediation flow, and practical exposure management in complex enterprise environments. How Brinqa supports Exposure Management with confidence and scale. From its perspective, this recognition aligns closely with what Brinqa, Inc. hear from security teams navigating complex environments every day. Many teams are managing more tools, more data sources, and more stakeholders than ever before. As exposure programs grow, the challenge often shifts from finding issues to answering more basic operational questions: Who owns this? Who is responsible for fixing it? And how do Brinqa, Inc. track progress without creating more manual work? The Brinqa platform is designed to help enterprise organizations manage exposure with greater confidence by establishing a strong operational foundation that supports scale, accountability, and consistency across teams. Built to scale as environments grow. As exposure management programs mature, performance and reliability become increasingly important. Organizations need to ingest more data, correlate more signals, and maintain governance as environments become more complex. Brinqa's platform architecture is designed to scale dynamically with growing data volumes and workloads. Compute and database resources adjust based on demand, supporting faster correlation, orchestration, and reporting as organizations onboard additional tools and manage more exposure sources. This approach helps teams maintain consistency and reliability as exposure management expands across the enterprise. Establishing clear ownership across assets and vulnerabilities. One of the most common friction points in vulnerability and exposure management is ownership. When assets and vulnerabilities lack clear accountability, findings stall, handoffs break down, and remediation slows. Brinqa helps teams establish and maintain clear ownership by linking assets and vulnerabilities to the teams responsible for them. Ownership models can reflect how organizations actually operate, including shared responsibility across infrastructure, application, and business teams. This ownership context travels with exposure data throughout the lifecycle, making it easier for teams to understand who needs to act and reducing the back-and-forth that often delays remediation. Moving beyond manual spreadsheets and ad hoc tracking. In many organizations, exposure management still relies on manual spreadsheets, one-off exports, or disconnected reports to track remediation progress and accountability. These approaches are time-consuming, difficult to maintain, and quickly fall out of date. Brinqa replaces manual tracking with a centralized, continuously updated system of record for exposure data. By integrating data directly from security and IT tools and maintaining ownership, status, and workflow context in one place, teams can reduce reliance on spreadsheets and focus their time on remediation rather than reconciliation. This shift helps exposure management programs scale without adding operational overhead or creating parallel systems of record. Orchestration across the exposure lifecycle. Effective exposure management depends on consistent execution from detection through remediation. Brinqa supports continuous, policy-based orchestration across the exposure lifecycle, enabling organizations to define how findings move between Security, IT, DevOps, and Risk teams. Orchestration logic is designed to remain transparent and adaptable, supporting governance while aligning with existing operating models. Visibility that supports decision-making. To reduce reporting overhead and support clearer communication, Brinqa provides a library of out-of-the-box dashboards covering risk, prioritization, exploitation, and remediation performance. These dashboards help teams track progress, ownership, and outcomes without extensive customization. The evolution of the Brinqa Platform: practical, responsible AI. As exposure management programs scale, maintaining accurate ownership, reducing duplication, and normalizing data becomes more difficult to manage manually. Brinqa's next phase of platform evolution applies AI to support these challenges in a practical, explainable way. AI capabilities operate on data already connected to the platform and are designed to support human decision-making rather than replace it. Examples include: * AI-driven vulnerability normalization The AI Vulnerability DeDuplicator identifies duplicate vulnerability findings from multiple scanners and consolidates them into a single, explainable record. This helps reduce noise while preserving detail, context, and auditability. * AI-supported ownership attributionThe AI Attribution Engine analyzes patterns in existing platform data to suggest remediation ownership for assets and vulnerabilities. Suggestions are presented with confidence thresholds and designed for human review, helping teams fill ownership gaps without relying on manual spreadsheets or guesswork. Supporting confidence across the exposure lifecycle. Taken together, these capabilities reflect Brinqa's focus on helping organizations manage exposure with clarity, accountability, and consistency as environments evolve. By combining a scalable platform architecture, clear ownership models, policy-based orchestration, centralized tracking, and AI-supported normalization, the Brinqa Platform helps teams reduce noise, eliminate manual work, and move forward with greater confidence across the exposure lifecycle. See Brinqa in action. Learn how your security program can benefit from integrated exposure visibility, advanced risk prioritization, and workflow orchestration that truly reduces organizational risk.

Brinqa, a unified exposure management platform, has reported 164% year-over-year growth in new bookings and a 32% increase in average selling price for new customers. The Austin-based company serves global enterprises including Nestlé, PhonePe, and SAP. The growth came during a year of leadership transition, following Dan Pagel's appointment as CEO. Brinqa's platform aggregates billions of security findings daily, with the average customer managing 20 different data sources and 12 million findings per day. In 2025, the company launched BrinqaIQ, an AI-powered capability built on its Cyber Risk Graph to make exposure data more actionable. Brinqa was also named in Gartner's 2025 Magic Quadrant for Exposure Assessment Platforms, positioning it for continued enterprise growth.

Just in: Gartner(R) calls Brinqa a Niche Player - We call it laser focused on redefining Exposure Management for the enterprise. Brinqa Recognized in the 2025 Gartner(R) Magic Quadrant(TM) for Exposure Assessment Platforms AUSTIN, Texas - (BUSINESS WIRE) - Brinqa announced today that it has been recognized as a Niche Player in the 2025 Gartner(R) Magic Quadrant(TM) for Exposure Assessment Platforms. We believe this recognition underscores Brinqa's ability to deliver proven, scalable solutions for large, complex, and highly regulated enterprises. We believe being a niche player also defines how we operate. Brinqa is transforming the way exposure management is scaled and operationalized across the enterprise landscape, helping organizations with vast and dynamic attack surfaces achieve clarity, consistency, and control in their cyber risk programs. In an environment where enterprise clients demand solutions that are both battle-tested and built for scale, we're confident Brinqa stands apart by enabling actionable visibility and operational efficiency across the world's most complex digital ecosystems. "We're proud to be included in this inaugural Gartner Magic Quadrant, which we believe highlights the growing importance of exposure management as a core cybersecurity discipline," said Dan Pagel, CEO of Brinqa. "For more than a decade, Brinqa has focused on solving one of cybersecurity's toughest challenges for the largest organizations in the world: namely, connecting the data and accelerating the prioritization of remediation across complex enterprise environments so organizations can act quickly and with confidence. We feel this inclusion reinforces our commitment to helping organizations act decisively, scale efficiently, and lead with confidence in managing cyber risk." "Brinqa's strength is in serving large, complex enterprise organizations that require proven, scalable, and deeply integrated solutions," said Brad Hibbert, Chief Strategy Officer of Brinqa. "We're proud of our unique ability to deliver the depth, automation, and intelligence enterprises need to turn data into action and move quickly and confidently from reactive to proactive security." Brinqa supports large enterprises across sectors including finance, healthcare, insurance, consumer goods, and technology, with a growing footprint across North America, APAC, and Europe. Recent innovations, including the launch of BrinqaIQ, extend this vision by making cyber risk data accessible through AI-powered natural-language interaction. Read the full report here: https://www.brinqa.com/resources/2025-gartner-magic-quadrant-exposure-assessment. Brinqa empowers enterprises to understand and reduce technology risk by delivering full visibility into exposures that impact the business. The Brinqa Unified Exposure Management platform consolidates and normalizes data from across your security stack, enriches it with business and threat intelligence, and prioritizes remediation based on actual risk. Trusted by the world's leading organizations, Brinqa transforms traditional vulnerability management into a strategic risk management capability - driving faster remediation, improved security posture, and measurable reductions in business risk. Media Contact: Brands2Life on behalf of Brinqa [email protected]