Key Capabilities / Features

Primary features & capabilities include:

Vulnerability Aggregation:
Nucleus Security connects to 160+ sources, ingesting data from various security tools to consolidate vulnerability findings. It processes billions of findings daily, enabling organizations to manage assets effectively by deduplicating data across multiple scanning tools and maintaining consistent asset IDs.

Vulnerability Remediation:
Nucleus automates risk-based workflows to prioritize and ticket critical exposures, assigning them to the correct owners with precision. It integrates with existing ticketing systems, providing continuous updates on ticket status and adapting to changes in vulnerability data.

Asset Management:
Nucleus consolidates, normalizes, and deduplicates asset data from 160+ sources, creating a unified asset inventory. It automates ownership assignment hierarchically to teams and users, enabling effective risk management at scale. The platform also operationalizes asset and business context by analyzing factors such as asset criticality, data sensitivity, and internet exposure

Risk Prioritization:
Nucleus goes beyond CVSS scores by incorporating security, asset, and real-world threat data into a unified risk score that reflects the likelihood and impact of a breach. The platform allows customization of risk factors based on specific business needs and continuously monitors threat intelligence feeds to track evolving exploits and their impact on risk.

Vulnerability Threat Intelligence:
Nucleus centralizes vulnerability intelligence by combining data from 16+ government, open-source, and premium threat intelligence feeds. It provides actionable insights on exploitability, documented exploits, and likelihood of exploitation, allowing organizations to proactively remediate real-world risks. The platform also supports integration of custom intelligence sources for tailored risk management

Plan of Action and Milestones (POAM):
Nucleus automates the Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M) process, integrating it with vulnerability management workflows. The platform streamlines POA&M lifecycle management by automating SLA setting, task assignment, and progress tracking. It also generates automated POA&M reports for FedRAMP compliance, simplifying adherence to NIST standards and the Risk Management Framework.

How we are different

Nucleus Security differentiates itself from its competitors and deserves recognition for the following reasons:

Unified Asset Management: Nucleus automatically consolidates asset data from diverse sources, creating a single, unified view of an organization's assets. This unified approach ensures accurate representation of all scanned and discovered assets, with source-referenced metadata maintaining transparency. The platform's advanced Cloud Asset Matching platform correlates container images across repositories, versions, and runtime environments, mapping risks throughout the CI/CD pipeline and enabling effective shift-left risk-based remediation.

Intelligent Ownership and Prioritization: Nucleus automates ownership assignment for assets and vulnerabilities based on attributes like business unit, location, or application type. This streamlines workflows and reduces response times. The platform's Data Fabric Architecture links vulnerability objects to asset objects, incorporating critical business context into risk prioritization. By aggregating risk metadata into four key factors - asset criticality, internet exposure, data sensitivity, and compliance scope - Nucleus enables more precise and effective prioritization of remediation efforts.

Advanced Deduplication, Categorization, & Compliance: Nucleus employs automatic deduplication across and within sources, consolidating findings from multiple sources for a single asset and maintaining consistent asset IDs over time. This ensures a persistent and accurate asset inventory. Additionally, the platform's advanced asset tagging and grouping capabilities allow users to categorize assets based on critical business attributes and complex application hierarchies, facilitating targeted remediation efforts aligned with business priorities. Furthermore, Nucleus is uniquely positioned as the sole FedRAMP Moderate Authorized vendor in the risk based vulnerability management market, enabling it to serve both enterprise and federal entities with its advanced vulnerability and exposure management platform