Exposure management that ends in a verified fix, not a spreadsheet
Trace brings every vulnerability and exposure finding, from your existing scanners and its own external attack surface scanning, into one place, ranks it by real exploitability, and tracks it to closure.
What exposure management actually means
Most teams already run at least one vulnerability scanner, and most of them produce the same problem: a long list of findings sorted by a generic severity score, with no way to tell which ten actually matter this week. Exposure management is the practice of answering that question properly, pulling every source of risk, known CVEs, misconfigurations, exposed credentials, unmanaged external assets, into one view and ranking it by whether an attacker could actually reach and use it, not by a label assigned in the abstract.
Done properly, it ends with a fix that's verified closed, not a spreadsheet that gets reviewed once a quarter and quietly grows.
Exposure management vs. vulnerability management vs. attack surface management
These three terms get used interchangeably in vendor marketing, but they describe layers, not synonyms. Vulnerability management is the foundational practice: finding known weaknesses, usually CVEs, and getting them patched. Attack surface management (ASM) looks outward specifically, discovering and monitoring the domains, IPs, certificates and cloud services an outside attacker can actually see, including the ones your team forgot existed. Exposure management is the umbrella: it takes vulnerability data and ASM findings together, adds context like exploit availability and reachability, and produces one risk-ranked list instead of three separate ones.
Trace is built to do all three from one place, rather than asking you to reconcile outputs from three different tools yourself.
How Trace works
Every finding, from your scanners or from Trace Exposure, is de-duplicated, ranked by real exploitability rather than raw CVSS, and triaged by our analysts before it reaches your queue. Nothing sits closed until a fix is verified, and you get a monthly posture report that shows the trend, not just a snapshot.
Works with the scanners you already run
Trace doesn't replace your vulnerability scanner, it connects to it. If you already run Tenable, Qualys or Rapid7, Trace ingests those findings directly rather than asking you to switch tools or pay for a second scanning engine you don't need. See the full list on the integrations page.
Works alongside Pulse and Attest
Trace doesn't sit in isolation. Exposure findings feed directly into Pulse, so analysts investigating an alert already know what's exposed on the affected host, and into Attest, so your compliance evidence and risk register stay current without a separate export. See how the three fit together on the platform page.
Frequently asked questions
What's the difference between exposure management and vulnerability management?+
Vulnerability management is the practice of finding, prioritising and fixing known weaknesses, usually CVEs, inside your environment. Exposure management is broader: it includes vulnerabilities but also misconfigurations, exposed credentials, unmanaged external assets and anything else an attacker could actually use, scored by how reachable and exploitable it really is rather than a generic severity rating.
Is exposure management the same as attack surface management (ASM)?+
They overlap heavily. Attack surface management usually refers specifically to discovering and monitoring your externally-facing assets, domains, IPs, certificates, cloud services, so you know what an outside attacker can see. Exposure management typically includes ASM as one input alongside internal vulnerability data, then ranks everything together by real risk.
Do we need to replace our vulnerability scanner to use Trace?+
No. Trace is built to ingest findings from the scanners you already run, deduplicate and correlate them, then add its own external exposure scanning on top. You keep your existing tools; Trace is the layer that turns their output into one risk-ranked, trackable fix list.
How is exploitability ranking different from CVSS scoring?+
CVSS scores a vulnerability in the abstract, the same CVE gets the same base score everywhere. Exploitability ranking weighs whether that specific instance is internet-facing, whether a working exploit exists, and whether it sits on a path to something that matters in your environment, so a lower-CVSS issue that's actually reachable can outrank a higher-CVSS one that isn't.
See what Trace finds in your environment
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