2025 SC Awards Finalists: Best Vulnerability Management Solution

As threat actors increasingly exploit misconfigurations, unpatched vulnerabilities, and security blind spots, organizations require continuous attack surface monitoring and automated risk mitigation. Darktrace’s Proactive Exposure Management™, a finalist in the SC Awards 2025, is transforming how businesses proactively secure their environments with AI-powered threat modeling, continuous exposure monitoring, and automated security enforcement. With remarkable adoption across diverse industries, Darktrace continues to enhance its AI-driven security platform, providing real-time visibility into emerging risks, intelligent prioritization of vulnerabilities, and automated policy enforcement. As businesses shift toward proactive cyber defense strategies, Darktrace’s Proactive Exposure Management™ is delivering the next evolution of intelligent vulnerability management.

With modern enterprises managing thousands of vulnerabilities across dynamic IT environments, Nucleus Security’s Vulnerability and Exposure Management Platform has been named a finalist in the SC Awards 2025 for its intelligent risk prioritization, automated remediation workflows, and scalable security integrations. Nucleus Security’s AI-powered vulnerability management engine enables organizations to centralize and correlate risk data from multiple security tools, ensuring that high-risk threats are addressed before they become incidents. With a rapidly growing customer base, continuous product innovations, and deep integrations with industry-leading security solutions, Nucleus Security is empowering businesses to transform vulnerability management from a reactive process into a proactive defense strategy.

The traditional approach to vulnerability scanning and patching is too slow to keep up with today’s evolving cyber threats. SecPod Technologies’ SanerNow, a finalist in the SC Awards 2025, delivers AI-powered vulnerability detection, real-time risk assessment, and automated remediation workflows, enabling businesses to patch vulnerabilities at machine speed. SecPod’s SanerNow platform protects organizations across six continents, offering scalable security solutions for enterprises of all sizes. With continuous investments in cloud-native security analytics, behavioral threat detection, and automated compliance management, SanerNow is redefining how organizations manage cyber risk at scale.

With organizations struggling to keep pace with emerging vulnerabilities, Synack’s Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) has secured a finalist position in the SC Awards 2025 for its continuous, crowdsourced security testing and AI-powered risk analysis. PTaaS provides on-demand penetration testing with a network of elite ethical hackers, allowing businesses to uncover and remediate vulnerabilities faster than traditional security assessments. With growing adoption among Fortune 500 companies, Synack is expanding its AI-driven vulnerability intelligence, automated risk validation, and compliance-aligned security testing capabilities. As attackers exploit zero-day vulnerabilities at an alarming rate, Synack’s PTaaS is helping organizations harden their security postures with real-world, adversary-driven insights.

As operational technology (OT) environments become prime targets for cyberattacks, The Dragos Platform has been recognized as a finalist in the SC Awards 2025 for its comprehensive vulnerability management and risk mitigation capabilities for industrial control systems (ICS). Dragos provides real-time OT asset visibility, AI-powered anomaly detection, and automated security assessments, ensuring that critical infrastructure organizations can prevent cyber disruptions before they occur. Dragos remains a global leader in industrial cybersecurity, with continuous investments in AI-enhanced threat detection, predictive risk modeling, and automated incident response workflows. With nation-state actors and ransomware groups increasingly targeting industrial networks, The Dragos Platform is delivering next-gen cybersecurity resilience for critical sectors.