Vulnerability Management
Nucleus Security Platform
Unified vulnerability and exposure management for risk-based prioritization and remediation.
Nucleus Security Platform Overview
What it does
Nucleus Security is a unified vulnerability and exposure management platform that consolidates security data from across enterprise environments into a single source of truth for risk prioritization and remediation. The platform integrates with 160+ security scanners, asset management tools, and threat intelligence feeds to ingest, normalize, and correlate vulnerability data from infrastructure, cloud, and application portfolios. Unlike traditional vulnerability management tools that create alert fatigue, Nucleus applies AI-powered risk scoring with business context and real-world threat intelligence from sources including Nucleus Insights, CISA KEV (Known Exploited Vulnerabilities), and EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) to focus remediation efforts on the exposures that matter most.
How it works
The Nucleus Data Core architecture transforms raw security findings into interconnected objects—assets, vulnerabilities, threats, users, and tickets—creating a unified data fabric that enables intelligent automation. The platform features the Nucleus Query Language (NQL) for natural language queries across exposure data, a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for governed AI interactions, and the Dynamic Automation Framework for customizable remediation workflows. Nucleus automatically matches assets from rest to runtime, deduplicates findings across tools, assigns ownership based on asset groups, and creates tickets in integrated ITSM systems like ServiceNow and Jira. The platform processes millions of assets and billions of findings across global teams with role-based access controls and live dashboards for executive visibility.
Credentials and traction
Nucleus Security holds FedRAMP Moderate Authorization and SOC 2 Type II certification. It was named a Challenger in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Exposure Assessment Platforms, a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Exposure Management 2025, a Strong Performer in the Forrester Wave: Unified Vulnerability Management Solutions, Q3 2025, and a Leader and Outperformer in the 2025 GigaOm Radar for Continuous Vulnerability Management. The platform serves enterprise and government customers, including Orange Cyberdefense.
Key Capabilities
mapped to solution categoriesCross-references the vulnerability inventory against live threat feeds tracking CVEs under active exploitation in the wild, surfacing vulnerabilities with confirmed attacker activity.
Incorporates asset metadata (network exposure, business criticality, data classification) into vulnerability prioritization so that a critical CVE on an isolated internal test system ranks lower than a medium CVE on an internet-facing payment server.
Continuously discovers external-facing assets (domains, IPs, cloud services, APIs, certificates) including assets deployed outside the official inventory.
Scans cloud resource configurations and container image CVEs alongside traditional OS and application vulnerabilities in a unified risk view.
Assigns likelihood-of-exploitation scores using threat intelligence, vulnerability characteristics, and active exploit availability, independent of CVSS, which measures severity rather than exploitability.
Recommends the minimum patch set that eliminates the highest-risk exposure (accounting for shared libraries and patch co-dependencies), rather than presenting a ranked CVE list.
Creates tickets, assigns owners, and tracks remediation progress in ITSM platforms (ServiceNow, Jira), closing the loop between finding and fix rather than producing a static report.
Enforces remediation deadlines by severity, reports on SLA compliance, and escalates overdue findings through configured approval chains.
Aggregates and deduplicates findings from network scanners, endpoint agents, cloud scanners, and third-party tools into one normalized record for cross-estate risk ranking.
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Info last updated on May 27, 2026
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