Agentic exposure management startup Dux Technologies Inc. launched today with an announcement that it has raised $9 million in funding to grow its U.S. go-to-market organization and accelerate development of its platform’s agentic capabilities across exploitability analysis, lightweight mitigation and continuous exposure management.

Dux was founded by Or Latovitz, Amit Nir and Nadav Geva (pictured), all graduates of the Israel Defense Forces’ elite Talpiot program. They created it to eliminate exposures before they become attacks by uncovering what’s actually exploitable and finding the fastest path to safety.

The problem Dux aims to address is enterprises’ struggle with an increasing volume of assets, scanners and vulnerabilities, which Dux argues are more than teams can realistically triage. Artificial intelligence has exacerbated the problem by dramatically increasing the speed at which vulnerabilities are exploited.

“These attacks don’t wait for patch cycles,” explains Latovitz, co-founder and chief executive of Dux. “Defenders need rapid insight into what’s actually exploitable and the means to reduce those exposures effectively, at the pace modern attacks demand.”

Dux’s solution is an agentic approach that aligns with Gartner’s Continuous Threat Exposure Management framework but applies it through agentic AI workers designed to reason like expert analysts at scale. The idea is that instead of generating more findings or another prioritization layer, Dux focuses on the essential question: What matters now and what’s the fastest path to safety?

Dux’s AI workers continuously analyze exploitability across the entire environment to determine whether existing controls already block a potential attack path, surface lightweight mitigations that can eliminate risk faster than a full patch and route targeted remediation to identified owners only when necessary.

The company pitches its offering as representing a shift from periodic scans and manual triage to continuous, agentic investigation. Dux’s platform determines what’s viable for an attacker in a given environment and moves organizations toward the fastest safe fix, whether the fix requires a configuration change, a control update or a targeted patch.

The result is a materially smaller attack surface and a far shorter path from vulnerability discovery to resolution.

Though only formally launching today, Dux is already supporting major U.S. enterprises.

“Every time a zero-day drops or a critical vulnerability hits the news, teams need answers fast. Our customers spin up AI workers to investigate those vulnerabilities across their environment within minutes,” said Geva, Dux’s co-founder and chief technology officer. “That’s a level of rapid, environment-specific research that simply wasn’t possible before.”

The seed round was led by Redpoint Ventures, TLV Partners Ltd. and Maple Capital Partners Ltd., with leading cybersecurity executives from CrowdStrike Holdings Inc., Okta Inc. and Armis Inc. also participating.

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