The window of opportunity to find and remediate exposures is closing faster than ever due to AI-driven attacks. These exploits are no longer theoretical; they are a statistical reality that has rendered traditional patching deadlines nearly obsolete. As adversaries leverage AI to identify assets impacted by zero days, unpatchable legacy systems, and segmentation weaknesses, security teams are in danger of losing the race against exploitability. This is why CISA recently issued new risk-based guidance to federal civilian agencies with revised deadlines for patching vulnerabilities in their networks.
In this high-stakes race to find and remediate exposures before attackers do, relying on third-party tools like EDR agents to pinpoint vulnerabilities is no longer adequate as you can’t assume 100% coverage of the attack surface. AI will find the gaps in your defenses if you don’t find them first.
runZero has the fastest, most comprehensive active scanning in the industry, and requires zero agents and zero security credentials to map complex hybrid IT, OT, and IoT environments. runZero’s discovery even walks the backplane to reveal every asset hiding behind OT gateways like Modbus and BACnet, showing you every connected device. Since a single exposed thermostat can potentially touch every other device connected to that gateway, this deep visibility is critical. Our comprehensive exposure management platform offers ground truth about the assets and exposures that present the most risk for your organization.
With the new 5.0 release, runZero is giving defenders the edge they need to succeed in the AI-attack era. Version 5.0 accelerates the entire exposure management lifecycle from asset discovery to risk prioritization to verified remediation — providing immutable proof that a vulnerability is actually fixed. When every minute counts due to AI’s speed, you need a platform that quickly empowers defenders with deep, actionable intelligence across IT, OT, IoT, cloud, and mobile to close the gaps and hold the line.
Exposure Management dashboard #
The Exposure Management dashboard operationalizes runZero’s industry-leading asset and exposure intelligence into a centralized hub for risk reduction. The Exposure Management dashboard puts critical risks, major changes, and top priorities front and center.
While deep-dive analysis into asset attributes remains available, this new view bubbles up the highest (and newest) risks across your attack surface that require immediate attention.
Understand how an exposure will be exploited #
We don’t stop at known vulnerabilities and CVEs. We also show you the choke points and unintended routes attackers can use to move in your environment. A powerful example of this is the automatic identification of multi-homed devices, which can serve as bridges that bypass your elaborate network segmentation efforts. Every second that a multi-homed device or an exposed OT gateway remains unmasked is a second the attacker uses to finalize their path to your crown jewels.
runZero visualizes the path an attacker can take from a multi-homed device to an asset with a vulnerability. These attack path maps show you the road of least resistance to an exposed asset.
But these are just the first steps of the exposure lifecycle, and runZero is working hard to shorten that entire lifecycle with another new capability.
Expanded vulnerability coverage with decision-focused insight #
Version 5.0 also broadens vulnerability detection. We’ve expanded end-of-life coverage for more network devices and added out-of-band testing that identifies blind vulnerability classes without requiring customer-side callback infrastructure.
We have also added new capabilities to correlate asset-specific hardware and software data with known advisories; the results are consolidated into streamlined "Missing Patches" entries that offer impact intelligence and remediation recommendations, reducing noise and accelerating fixes.
New summary views have also been added that allow you to hover over a vulnerability group to see a rollup of all exposures in that group, as well as recommended actions and environmental context that enable you to quickly and decisively take remediation actions.
Remediation tracking with verified closure #
Even after the heavy lifting of discovery and prioritization is done, tracking verified remediation remains a challenge. The process is often fragmented across tools and teams outside the security organization. runZero 5.0 addresses this with remediation tracking.
Without leaving the runZero platform, you can now push high-risk exposures directly into existing ticketing tools (Jira today, ServiceNow and more coming soon).
runZero tracks the ownership and status of both the ticket and the underlying exposure. This bi-directional integration means you and runZero are in the loop regarding the actions taken on all the exposures you track.
The "last mile" of security is often where exposures fall through the cracks as they pass across platforms and tools. Not any more. Once a ticket is marked "closed" in an external system, runZero goes the extra distance by comparing new scans against previous snapshots to verify the exposure no longer exists. If runZero detects the vulnerability again, it automatically re-opens the ticket and notifies the owner. This immutable truth of remediation ensures that a "closed ticket” actually means a "resolved risk.”
External scheduled reports #
No security team wins alone. To help communicate successes and bottlenecks to stakeholders, we’ve added external scheduled reports. You can now schedule and deliver the Exposure Management dashboard — along with risk assessments and inventory views — directly to the inboxes of stakeholders, regardless of whether they have a runZero login. Defenders can leverage runZero’s data to communicate with confidence across teams and executive leadership and show progress against goals.
Explore 5.0 today #
Security begins with visibility, but it must end with action. For too long, the remediation lifecycle has been a fragmented black box where a closed ticket didn't always mean a mitigated exposure.
With runZero 5.0, that era is over.
By uniting comprehensive asset and exposure intelligence, closed-loop remediation tracking and verification, and stakeholder reporting, runZero transforms raw discovery into a powerful, proactive workflow. With 5.0, you can seamlessly move beyond finding hidden assets and exposures to ruthlessly prioritizing the vulnerabilities most likely to be exploited, hardening critical choke points, and verifying high-risk vulnerabilities have been fully mitigated.
We believe defenders should win by default. Even against AI. With runZero, know every asset on your attack surface, uncover every exposure, map every attack path, and validate your segmentation. Take command of your entire attack surface by starting your free 21-day trial with runZero 5.0 today.
