One Year of Spektion: Redefining What’s Possible in Vulnerability Management

Last July, Spektion set out to solve a problem that had long plagued enterprise security: the broken, reactive nature of vulnerability management. Today, we’re proud to say we’ve not only made significant progress over the past year, but we’ve also helped redefine what’s possible.

From Frustration to Foundation

When Spektion launched, our founding team, comprised of enterprise security veterans, knew that CVE-based solutions were no longer enough. Zero-days, ungoverned software, and vulnerable internal apps were slipping through the cracks. Traditional tools simply couldn’t keep up.

So we built Spektion to do what others couldn’t: deliver real-time visibility into software execution, uncover vulnerabilities that aren’t captured in CVEs, and provide actionable, feasible ways to reduce risk. Not just patching. Not just alerts. A real solution for everything running in the environment.

Traditional vulnerability management often stops at identification—flagging known CVEs and handing off a patching to-do list. But patching alone isn’t scalable, and alerts without context only add noise. Spektion goes further.

We deliver tailored, actionable mitigations, including not just visibility into “what’s wrong,” but, more importantly, what to do about it based on the specific software, your environment, and risk profile.

That means:

• Preventive controls that can be implemented directly in your environment to block exploitation paths
• Detective controls that shift detection earlier in the attack chain, giving teams a head start
• Real-time visibility into software execution, including shadow IT, internally built tools, and privilege misuse, providing insights that traditional tools miss entirely
• Automated software inventory creation that helps IT and security teams align on reducing sprawl and attack surface

These aren’t theoretical fixes; they’re real, practical, and feasible actions that security teams can take today.

Listening, Learning, Leading

We didn’t start out planning to build a complete vulnerability management platform. But our customers had other ideas. They saw the value in Spektion’s runtime visibility, its tailored mitigations, and its ability to unify IT and security teams around shared goals. They asked us to go further, and we are.

Over the past year, we’ve delivered:

• Tailored compensating controls that go beyond generic advice, offering specific, implementable mitigations for real-world risks.
• Automated software categorization that helps IT teams manage sprawl and security teams reduce attack surfaces
• Privileged execution insights, revealing which software is running with elevated access and why that matters

These new features enhanced our customers’ workflows and reshaped strategies. Suddenly, vulnerability management wasn’t just about chasing patches or triaging alerts. It became about visibility, precision, and action—on their terms.

Figure 1: Spektion dashboard intelligently surfaces software risk

Built for Reality, Not Just Theory

Our core beliefs are that vulnerability management should be about visibility into risk and practical ways to reduce it with the least friction possible. It should be politically feasible in the technology organization, not idealistic. And it should empower security leaders to report wins, not just fight fires.

We’ve seen customers go from deploying Spektion on a subset of endpoints to wanting it everywhere. Why? Because once they saw what was possible—real-time insights, actionable controls, and meaningful risk reduction—they knew this was the future.

The Road Ahead

We’re just getting started. In the next 12 months, we’ll be sharing more of what we’re able to detect, responsibly. We’ll highlight vulnerabilities that never made it into CVEs but were patched quietly. We’ll show how visibility upstream of disclosure can change the game.

And most importantly, we’ll keep delivering wins for our customers. Vulnerability management shouldn’t be a meat grinder. It should be a career-enhancing, fulfilling function in a modern security program.

Thank You & Next Steps

To our customers, our team, and everyone who’s believed in and contributed to our mission, thank you. Spektion was built on the idea that pre-exploitation security capabilities can be better. One year in, we’re proving it every day.

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