Nucleus Security provides unified vulnerability and exposure management software for enterprises and government agencies that need a single operational view of assets, findings, and threat context. Its platform ingests, normalizes, and correlates data from more than 200 security and asset tools so teams can replace fragmented scanner-centric processes with centralized visibility, prioritization, reporting, and remediation coordination.
Nucleus Security is positioned around operationalizing exposure reduction rather than simply aggregating findings. The company combines business context, AI-powered vulnerability intelligence, customizable risk scoring, and workflow automation so customers can identify the exposures that matter most, route work to the right owners, and measure progress across complex enterprise and public-sector environments.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Nucleus Security’s offering centers on unifying vulnerability, asset, and threat data into a live system of record that supports prioritization, remediation, and executive reporting. Core capabilities include normalization and deduplication, configurable risk models, ownership mapping, workflow automation, SLA tracking, role-based dashboards, and query-driven analysis for security teams that need consistent decisions across distributed environments.
Integration breadth is a major part of the value proposition. Nucleus Security supports more than 200 built-in connectors across scanners, cloud security tools, asset management systems, ITSM platforms, threat intelligence feeds, EDR, CSPM, SAST, DAST, and OT tools, and extends coverage with a universal ingestion framework for niche or custom data sources. It also supports AI-driven workflows through governed natural-language access and API-connected intelligence enrichment.
Products and Services
- Nucleus Vulnerability Management Platform: Unified vulnerability and exposure management platform that ingests and normalizes data from 200+ security tools, prioritizes risk with threat and business context, and automates remediation workflows, ownership assignment, dashboards, and reporting.
- Nucleus Vulnerability Intelligence Platform (VIP): Dedicated vulnerability intelligence workspace that centralizes more than 230,000 CVEs and enriches them with 16+ government, open-source, and commercial feeds for threat research, monitoring, alerting, and triage.
- Nucleus Insights: AI-powered, analyst-validated vulnerability intelligence feed that adds Nucleus Threat Rating, exploit signals, actor and malware context, and mitigation guidance to vulnerability workflows and API-driven integrations.
- Nucleus MCP Server: Governed Model Context Protocol server that lets authorized AI tools and agents query Nucleus data in natural language, generate tailored reports, recommend remediation actions, and operate under role-based access controls.
- Nucleus Data Core: The data foundation for the platform, transforming incoming signals into interconnected objects such as assets, findings, threat intelligence, users, and tickets to create a live exposure intelligence system of record.
- FlexConnect: Universal integration framework for ingesting vulnerability, asset, and compliance data from virtually any source or format, with parsing, mapping, normalization, enrichment, deduplication, and correlation into existing Nucleus workflows.
- Plan of Action & Milestones (POAM): Compliance workflow capability that links POA&M records to vulnerability findings, automates creation and updates when SLAs are missed, centralizes evidence and milestone tracking, and supports continuous monitoring report generation for regulated environments.
- Compliance Frameworks: Built-in control mapping and filtering capability that aligns exposures to frameworks such as FedRAMP, NIST, HIPAA, GDPR, PCI DSS, and CMMC, with support for hundreds of sub-controls and audit-ready reporting views.
Target Customers
Nucleus Security is built for large enterprises and public-sector organizations that manage exposure across complex, distributed environments. Its customer focus includes federal agencies, state and local government, government contractors, cloud service providers, and other organizations where scale, compliance obligations, and fragmented tooling make exposure management difficult.
The platform also targets managed security service providers that need multi-tenant operations, faster onboarding, repeatable reporting, and scalable automation across many client environments. Across commercial and government use cases, Nucleus Security addresses teams responsible for risk-based vulnerability management, cloud exposure management, application security, and compliance-driven remediation programs.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplace
- AWS Marketplace: Nucleus Security has a commercial AWS Marketplace listing for its enterprise vulnerability management platform as a SaaS offering deployed on AWS.
- AWS GovCloud: Nucleus Security promotes an AWS GovCloud option for government agencies and vendors, aligned to its FedRAMP-authorized government offering.
- Google Cloud Platform: Nucleus Security lists Google Cloud Platform as a supported marketplace or partner environment for operating and managing vulnerability and risk programs on GCP.
- CrowdStrike Marketplace: Nucleus Security has CrowdStrike Marketplace presence for its Falcon Exposure Management integration, which brings endpoint vulnerability data into Nucleus for broader risk-based prioritization.
- Carahsoft Marketplace: Nucleus Security is available through Carahsoft as a public-sector procurement route for its risk-based vulnerability management offerings.
- FedRAMP Marketplace: Nucleus Security maintains a FedRAMP Marketplace listing for Nucleus for Government (NucleusGov), which the FedRAMP Marketplace shows as FedRAMP Certified with a Class C Moderate designation.
Key People
- Steve Carter: CEO
- Scott Kuffer: CPO
- Will Gorman: CTO
- Kunal Desai: CFO
- David Smith: CRO
- Nick Fleming: Chief Engineer
- Tamir Hardof: CMO
- Jeff Gouge: CISO
- David Reardon: SVP of Global Sales
- Jeff Beavin: VP of Channel
- Adam Dudley: VP of Strategy and Alliances
- Rob Gibson: VP of Product
Key Facts
- Headquarters: Sarasota, Florida, United States
- Employees: Approximately 108
- Annual Revenue: $10M-$15M
- Parent Company: None
- Subsidiaries: None
- Publicly Listed: No
Analyst Recognitions
- Gartner: Challenger in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Exposure Assessment Platforms.
- IDC: Major Player in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Exposure Management 2025 Vendor Assessment.
