Brinqa and VulnCheck: Enabling Proactive Security Through Exposure Management Intelligence
by Beth Barach, VP of PM//7 min read/
In 2024, Brinqa partnered with VulnCheck to help organizations strengthen their security posture through better risk prioritization and deeper vulnerability context. The goal was simple: give security teams clearer insight into which exposures matter most, and the tools they need to respond proactively as threats evolve.
As our collaboration has grown, we’ve expanded it to include MITRE ATT&CK technique mappings. These mappings improve visibility into how vulnerabilities are exploited in the real world, supporting stronger detection and more effective remediation.
Brinqa’s deep expertise in exposure management combined with VulnCheck’s cutting-edge vulnerability intelligence capabilities provide more comprehensive and actionable vulnerability data. Our partnership began with the desire to strengthen organizations’ security posture via enhanced risk prioritization and equip them with the necessary tools to respond proactively to threats. We continue to evolve our partnership to support improved risk prioritization by increasing the enrichment of vulnerability data with additional context related to exploitation, threat activity, and detection.
Dynamic Threat Intelligence Is Critical For Exposure Management
Threats evolve quickly, and traditional vulnerability intelligence sources often struggle to keep pace. Many organizations rely on static or delayed data sources such as the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) and CVE listings. These sources can be impacted by delayed updates, API reliability issues, and data availability challenges. Identifying known vulnerabilities is even more critical than before due to attacker use of automation and AI which accelerate their capabilities and reduce the time from identification to exploit.
Shrinking times from identification to exploit for attackers in turn pressure exposure management teams to reduce their mean time to resolve (MTTR). Effective exposure is increasingly difficult without timely and contextual intelligence. Teams must have visibility into which vulnerabilities are actively exploited, how they are being used, and which threats present the highest risk. Identification of vulnerabilities is not sufficient, effective vulnerability management requires context around exploitation, threat activity, and operational relevance.
VulnCheck Transforms Vulnerability Management
VulnCheck is crucial to helping organizations stay on top of threats with the latest updates. Vulncheck enhances vulnerability assessment and management through its sophisticated data integration capabilities, which leverage information from various sources, including the NVD, CVE, and its proprietary intelligence.
By synthesizing data from these diverse origins, VulnCheck provides a comprehensive and nuanced view of the vulnerability landscape, enabling more informed decision-making. This integration enhances the overall vulnerability assessment process by offering broader coverage and deeper insights into each identified vulnerability.
VulnCheck also deploys advanced analytics and predictive models to help organizations not just stay up to date, but be prepared for threats to come. These tools identify existing vulnerabilities and predict potential future vulnerabilities, thus allowing organizations to proactively address risks before they are exploited. This proactive approach is critical to staying safe from advanced threats, as being reactive is often too late.
Enhanced Exposure Assessment and Management
The partnership between Brinqa and VulnCheck continues to enrich our platform’s exposure assessment capabilities by integrating various data sources to deliver up-to-date and reliable vulnerability intelligence. This contextual information helps organizations understand the impact of vulnerabilities, prioritize high-risk exposures, and tailor effective security strategies. The integration of VulnCheck’s advanced vulnerability intelligence into Brinqa’s cybersecurity framework is seamless. Brinqa’s threat intel connector easily ingests VulnCheck data into the Brinqa platform. This connector enables VulnCheck intelligence to be incorporated directly into Brinqa’s risk analysis and vulnerability workflows.
The VulnCheck integration provides Brinqa customers with:
- Information to better identify known exploited threats, which helps prioritize remediation
- Some degree of attribution to threat groups and a list of threats known to be used by threat groups, which helps prioritize remediation
- A list of threats with known, off-the-shelf exploit tools, which helps prioritize remediation
- MITRE ATT&CK technique mappings, which allow for better detection of exploitation and support remediation efforts
- The ability to provide alerting rules to help detect exploitation and support remediation
Features designed to help understand the state of vulnerability exploitation, including:
- Monitoring of Git repositories for new exploit proof-of-concepts (PoCs)
- Caching of exploit PoCs
- Exploit maturity classification
- Exploit type classification
- Evidence of exploitation in the wild and exploitation timelines, including when a CVE began being exploited
The Value of VulnCheck Integration with the Brinqa Platform
Our integration enables VulnCheck to be a driving force behind Brinqa Risk Intelligence. Brinqa’s VulnCheck integration enriches CVE context with exploit, KEV data, EPSS, and threat actor attribution and provide faster triage, better prioritization, and deeper threat context. It enables product security and vulnerability management teams to act more efficiently.
VulnCheck’s intelligence is a standard component of Brinqa’s product package and part of our commitment to providing superior cybersecurity solutions without passing on additional costs to users.
Brinqa will continue to incorporate new risk factors from VulnCheck’s intelligence, as they evolve, providing configurable options for tailored risk attenuation based on real-world data. This will evolve and expand the contextual information available within vulnerability definitions and findings, giving users a more nuanced view of the threats they face.
Brinqa and VulnCheck significantly enhance the capabilities of Risk Operations Centers (ROC) by integrating advanced vulnerability intelligence directly into Brinqa’s comprehensive security solutions. This collaboration ensures that organizations are equipped with up-to-date, enriched, and deeply contextualized data, enabling them to make better-informed decisions and strengthen their overall security posture.
To see this partnership in action, schedule time with a Brinqa Expert for a tailored walkthrough of our AI-powered exposure management platform.
