Arctic Wolf has launched Aurora Exposure Management, a new product that Arctic says will help organizations identify, prioritize, and reduce cyber risk across their environments. The launch brings together
Aurora Vulnerability Management and Aurora Attack Surface Management as security teams face faster vulnerability discovery, expanding attack surfaces, and more pressure to act on the risks that matter most.
Vulnerability discovery is accelerating, and security teams are already dealing with too many findings, tools, and time. Arctic Wolf highlighted to NIST data showing CVE submissions increased 263% from 2020 to 2025, with the first three months of 2026 tracking nearly one-third higher than the same period last year.
Why Exposure Management Is Getting More Urgent
The exposure management conversation is changing. The problem is no longer just finding vulnerabilities. It is knowing which assets are exposed, which vulnerabilities are exploitable, where controls are missing, and what remediation work should happen first.
Dan Schiappa, president, Technology and Services at Arctic Wolf, told MSSP Alert, “Proactive security strategy is a fundamental mindset shift happening within security teams as breach activity from new and dormant vulnerabilities and misconfigured assets provides bad actors with more opportunities to get creative."
Exposure management has also become a crowded market. Vulnerability management, attack surface management, and continuous threat exposure management vendors often make similar claims around prioritization. For Arctic Wolf, the pitch is that prioritization needs a broader context than a vulnerability score or a single tool can provide.
“While vendor category naming can be helpful directionally for customers, the claims can get confusing,” Schiappa said. “Our focus is on driving security outcomes that remove breach potential and make it possible for security teams to get proactive. We’re going far beyond simplistic CVSS scoring to identify total cyber risk in the customer environment.”
Arctic Wolf’s Push for Context-Based Prioritization
Aurora Exposure Management is designed to bring those signals together. Arctic Wolf said the platform can ingest data from more than 100 third-party cybersecurity tools, including scanners, vulnerability management products, MDR, EDR, and identity tools, along with native telemetry from the Aurora platform.
“By looking at cyber risk holistically across the enterprise, Arctic Wolf makes it easy for customers to prioritize what to fix first,” Schiappa said. “This is a critical differentiator because accurate prioritization is fundamentally impossible to achieve in silos.”
That point matters for customers who already have scanning, endpoint, cloud, and IT service management tools in place. Many organizations are not starting from zero. They already have data, but it often sits across separate tools with different views of assets, vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, permissions, and missing controls.
“The individual scanning capabilities you’ve called out in the original question are one of the exact challenges we’re solving for with Aurora Exposure Management,” Schiappa said. “Prioritization requires normalization, context, criticality, and likelihood to make the highest impact decisions when they matter most.”
Where Vulnerability Management Fits
Aurora Vulnerability Management handles the core vulnerability workflow. It gives organizations visibility across known and unknown assets, uses exploitability and real-world threat signals to prioritize risk, and supports remediation through ITSM automation, AI-powered guidance, automated patch management, on-demand rescanning, and reporting. Arctic Wolf is also adding native patch management through Resolve, a new add-on designed to help organizations close the loop after vulnerabilities are found.
Resolve is important because remediation is where many vulnerability programs slow down. Finding the issue is one step. Getting the right team to patch it, validate the fix, and report progress is often where the work gets stuck.
“Resolve adds the ability to take direct action on vulnerabilities by enabling teams to schedule and deploy patches within Arctic Wolf’s Aurora Vulnerability Management offering,” Schiappa said. “It’s designed to close the gap between identifying a vulnerability and actually remediating it.”
Arctic Wolf is not positioning Resolve as a replacement for every internal IT or partner-led patching process. The company is leaving room for different operating models, depending on whether the customer handles patching internally or relies on a managed service provider or MSSP.
“Arctic Wolf's focus is on making sure vulnerabilities don’t sit unresolved and giving organizations flexibility in how they address them,” Schiappa said. “Some organizations will use Resolve to guide and prioritize patching handled by their internal IT teams, using it to focus on the issues that pose the greatest risk rather than trying to fix everything at once.”
Expanding the View Beyond Vulnerability Scanning
Aurora Attack Surface Management expands the view beyond vulnerability scanning. Built on capabilities Arctic Wolf gained through its acquisition of Sevco Security, the product continuously discovers assets, identifies unmanaged systems and security coverage gaps, and prioritizes exposure using business and threat context. Arctic Wolf said the product correlates and deduplicates data across endpoint, vulnerability management, identity, cloud, and other IT and security sources.
For MSSPs and MSPs, that multi-customer view is a key part of the story. Exposure management can become difficult to deliver as a service if every customer requires a separate workflow, separate reporting model, and separate asset reconciliation process.
“As part of the Aurora Exposure Management umbrella, MSSPs can deploy Aurora Attack Surface Management across customer environments with built-in multi-tenancy from a single platform so teams aren’t rebuilding workflows for every new customer,” Schiappa said.
Why This Matters for MSPs and MSSPs
That could matter most in the small and midmarket segment, where many customers have limited security teams and uneven tooling. These organizations still face exposure risk, but they may not have the people or process maturity to continuously reconcile asset, vulnerability, cloud, endpoint, and control data on their own.
“This matters because exposure management isn’t just a large enterprise problem,” Schiappa said. “The small and mid-market organizations that MSPs and MSSPs routinely serve are challenged by resource-constrained teams, limited tooling, and limited capacity to manually reconcile asset, vulnerability cloud, endpoint, and control data.”
For service providers, Arctic Wolf is also tying exposure management to business operations. Better asset visibility can support cleaner reporting, clearer billing, and stronger alignment between services delivered and revenue captured, especially when providers use per-asset pricing models.
“Aurora Attack Surface Management helps by giving service providers a continuously updated view of each customer’s attack surface so they can find unmanaged assets, identify vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, prioritize exposures, and show progress over time,” Schiappa said. “It also helps MSSP/MSPs run their own business more effectively with more accurate asset inventory counts that support cleaner reporting, more transparent billing, and better alignment between services delivered and revenue captured to align with the common per asset billing model.”
The Partner Role in Remediation
Partners also remain important on the remediation side. Many customers do not have the internal resources to manage patching, validate fixes, and keep remediation moving. In those cases, Resolve could become part of the service provider workflow rather than a customer-only tool.
“MSPs and MSSPs will continue to play a significant role, particularly for companies that don’t have the resources or expertise to manage patching on their own,” Schiappa said. “Many organizations rely on partners to execute patching, and Resolve gives those partners a more streamlined way to manage and deploy updates as part of their service. In practice, it’s about ensuring remediation happens, while leaving the decision of who performs the work to the customer and their partner ecosystem.”
Exposure management is moving closer to daily operations. As vulnerability discovery speeds up, security teams and service providers need a better way to decide what to fix first, prove what changed, and keep risk from piling up across unmanaged assets and disconnected tools. Arctic Wolf’s Aurora Exposure Management launch fits into that shift, with a focus on tying asset visibility, prioritization, and remediation into one operating model.
