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CISA BOD 26-02 and the Next Phase of Vulnerability Management

CISA recently published BOD 26-02, the latest Binding Operational Directive shaping how federal agencies manage cyber risk. While attention often gravitates toward highly visible directives like KEV, this one matters for a different reason: it raises the standard for how lifecycle risk must be tracked and sustained over time. BOD 26-02 is described as guidance on unsupported edge devices, which is accurate but incomplete.

Why This Moment Matters: Announcing our Series C Funding

Today, we announced our Series C funding. I want to start by saying thank you to Delta-v Capital and Arthur Ventures for their partnership and conviction in what we’re building. We’re grateful for their support and for the trust they’ve placed in our team. They didn’t invest because Nucleus tells a good story.

Internet Exposure and Vulnerability Risk: Why Reachability Changes Everything

In this conversation, Ryan Cribelar, R&D Engineer at Nucleus Security, breaks down why internet exposure is one of the most important layers of context in vulnerability and exposure management. Security teams are flooded with vulnerability data, but not every finding carries the same level of risk. As Ryan explains, whether a vulnerability is reachable from the internet can dramatically change how urgent it really is. Internet exposure shortens the path from discovery to exploitation and often determines whether a vulnerability is theoretical or immediately actionable.

Practical Tips for Tracking Vulnerability Remediation Progress

When vulnerability remediation succeeds at enterprise scale, it’s very rarely because the vulnerability management team is finding more vulnerabilities. It’s because the program was built around the idea of turning messy findings into steady, measurable risk reduction. That’s not an easy task. It’s easier to make it a numbers game, pointing to vulnerability volumes and how many findings were addressed, rather than accurately depicting how much real risk was eliminated.

Custom Risk Scoring Is the Missing Link Between Disconnected Findings and Real Exposure Management

Most large organizations rely on multiple vulnerability and exposure scanning tools out of necessity. Infrastructure scanners, cloud security platforms, application security testing tools, container scanners, and attack surface management solutions all play a role. Each one is designed to answer a specific question. But when it comes to understanding the risk of the vulnerabilities and exposures they detect, each tool has its own approach to quantifying it.

Why 2025 Marked a Turning Point for Exposure Management and for Nucleus

For years, the cybersecurity industry has told itself that vulnerability management has been improving. This story is centered around “more”: more scanners, more data, more dashboards. Despite this abundance, by 2025 the gap between activity and outcomes became impossible to ignore. Security teams were doing more work than ever but struggled to show that risk was actually going down.