Onit Security

Nomination Highlights

Vulnerability management has a math problem. The 2026 Verizon DBIR ranks vulnerability exploitation as the #1 breach entry vector, ahead of stolen credentials for the first time. Median time-to-patch for even the critical, actively exploited subset is 43 days and rising. The remediation half-life across all discovered flaws is 243 days (Veracode 2026). And 60% of breached organizations already had a patch available when they were breached (Ponemon/ServiceNow). The industry did not fail to find these vulnerabilities. It failed to fix them.

Onit Security exists to fix them. Its insight: the unit of work is broken. Every finding becomes a ticket, every ticket needs a human to triage, assign, and chase, and the queue grows faster than any team can work it. Onit replaces the task with the decision – one human judgment about an entire class of exposures that share a root cause, a fix, or an owner. AI agents then apply that decision to every matching exposure, open today or discovered tomorrow. One approved decision resolves thousands of findings without generating thousands of tickets. Decide once. Resolve forever.

The platform runs the full lifecycle above the tools teams already own, connected by API to 100+ scanners, cloud platforms, CMDBs, and ticketing systems:

• Noise reduction: findings normalized, deduplicated across overlapping scanners, and filtered to real risk.
• Exploitability proof: each exposure is tested against the live environment, with evidence, before anyone spends time on it.
• Ownership resolution: the true owner is inferred from live context – commits, ticket history, communications – ending the ~50% of tickets that bounce back from the wrong assignee and the ~30% that stall without context.
• Execution to verified closure: agents open the work, deliver exact fix guidance, escalate stalls, propose compensating mitigations when no patch exists, and confirm the fix landed. Every action is human-approved, logged, and reversible in one step.

The outcome is the metric vulnerability management has chased for two decades: mean time to remediate drops from weeks to hours. Onit works with Fortune 500 companies including Honeywell and Marvell; its largest deployment manages 50+ million active exposures across roughly 700,000 assets with a security team of about 20.

Every other tool in this category produces a better-ranked list of vulnerabilities. Onit produces closed ones – and decisions that keep the same class from ever piling up again.