Cybersecurity risk management firm Brinqa Inc. today announced new capabilities that it says will shorten time to value and make it easier to adopt modern vulnerability management best practices.

The new capabilities are focused around what Brinqa calls a “Risk Operations Center.” It’s a new approach to vulnerability management that enables chief information security officers and their teams to reduce threat exposures pre-attack across cloud, infrastructure and application security programs.

Brinqa argues that cybersecurity has mostly been reactive, with Security Operations Centers responding to attacks. With a majority of breaches resulting from the exploitation of known, unpatched vulnerabilities, there is a need to proactively address security findings across the attack surface by precisely understanding which ones pose the most risk to the business.

This is where the Risk Operations Center steps in. Enabled by the Brinqa Platform, the Brinqa ROC allows organizations to deliver a more proactive vulnerability management strategy to complement their existing SOC investments and reduce the number of incidents that require reactive response.

The Brinqa Platform is an enterprise platform that can be extended to address complex use cases as they arise. At its core is a “Cyber Risk Graph,” which unifies security findings with business and threat data so that organizations can consistently prioritize, remediate and report on risk.

The new capabilities offer quick time to value, Brinqa says. Customers, it claims, can go from zero to initial value in as fast as 90 days using a collection of built-in capabilities that include best practice risk factors, integrated threat intelligence feeds, exception management workflows and out-of-the-box dashboards.

The company is making it easier to bring in data, organize it and report on actionable risk insights from one central platform with a major user experience update. An enhanced user interface reduces the clicks needed for common tasks and improves the ability for administrators to organize dynamic data to navigate and investigate the Cyber Risk Graph with point-and-click exploration.

Brinqa has also introduced new analytics infrastructure that extends its Cyber Risk Graph to process millions of security datasets across diverse sources with correlated context in real-time. The feature supports more advanced risk analytics capabilities and paves the way for artificial intelligence applications.

“Our customers want a central hub across infrastructure, cloud and application security,” said Chief Executive Amad Fida. “To do this, they need technology that scales to support countless security findings coming from dozens of sources across multiple security programs.”

Brinqa is a venture capital-funded startup that has raised $110 million, according to data from Tracxn. Investors include Insight Partners Inc.

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