Forrester included Cye in its Q1 2026 overview of top proactive cybersecurity platform vendors.
As organizations face AI-related threats and expanding attack surfaces across cloud, SaaS, identities, and third parties, the need for unified visibility, prioritization, and remediation is becoming increasingly urgent.
That pressure is accelerating demand for a more unified security operating model. In The Proactive Security Platforms Landscape, Q1 2026, Forrester highlights the growing importance of platforms that bring these functions together, helping organizations move beyond fragmented security workflows and take a more coordinated approach to cyber risk.
Cye was recently included in this report, reflecting the strength of Cye’s AI-native platform in helping organizations identify business impact, prioritize action, and drive meaningful risk reduction over time.
What is Proactive Security?
According to Forrester, a proactive security platform unifies asset and exposure visibility across the organization, prioritizes the most impactful remediation actions, and augments and orchestrates remediation efforts.
This reflects a broader market shift away from siloed tools and toward a more unified operating layer for visibility, prioritization, and remediation.
Increasingly, that also means using AI to connect fragmented security data, surface the most relevant insights faster, and guide teams toward the next best action.
The 3 Pillars of Proactive Security
At its core, Forrester describes proactive security as relying on three main pillars:
- Asset Discovery and Visibility: Collecting a comprehensive inventory of what an organization has across its entire environment, expanding beyond traditional servers and endpoints to include cloud workloads, applications, identities, and IoT/OT devices, as well as context like whether security controls are in place. This establishes a single source of truth for assets and their corresponding exposures.
- Contextual Prioritization: Rationalizing which exposures need attention first by looking beyond standard CVSS rankings. Proactive security prioritizes exposures by incorporating business context, IT team capacity, risk event modeling, and verifying whether an exposure is actually reachable and exploitable by an attacker.
- Remediation Orchestration: Driving fixes and proving posture improvement by serving as a control plane and system of record. Instead of merely opening an IT ticket, proactive security platforms directly integrate with IT operations, patch management, and configuration tools to orchestrate response processes and track remediation progress.
The Cye Exposure Management Platform
Cye’s AI-native exposure management platform helps organizations continuously understand, prioritize, and reduce cyber risk across the enterprise. By connecting fragmented security data, quantifying business impact, and delivering guided remediation and maturity improvement, Cye enables teams to strengthen operational resilience and drive measurable outcomes over time.
This aligns closely with Forrester’s view of proactive security: bringing together visibility, prioritization, and remediation in a more unified operating model. The core capabilities below illustrate how Cye delivers on those principles in practice.
- Organization-wide visibility: Cye uses AI to unify assets, exposures and business context across environments. The platform visualizes attack paths specific to the organizations, immediate maps of the probable routes common to each industry, and a centralized dashboard for group-level views. This allows teams to understand their full asset landscape and exposure from a single, consolidated view.
- Contextual, risk-based prioritization: Moving beyond standard severity scores like CVSS, Cye prioritizes exposures by analyzing their real-world impact. It incorporates factors like exploitability, reachability, cyber risk quantification, and business impact to clearly explain to teams “why this first”. In addition, Cye helps spot seemingly “minor” or low-severity vulnerabilities that attackers could chain together for privilege escalation, or that serve as critical choke points in an attack chain.
- Remediation orchestration and tracking: Cye enables teams to coordinate remediation and track progress over time, helping demonstrate measurable posture improvement. Cye AI helps translate complex exposure data into guided mitigation and exposure-reduction plans, while integrations allow security teams to instantly trigger alerts, tickets, and workflows across teams and tools.
Looking Ahead
As the exposure management market continues to mature, organizations will increasingly look for platforms that connect technical findings to business decisions and measurable improvement. Cye’s AI-native approach brings together attacker perspective, operational remediation, and financial context to help security leaders focus resources where they matter most.
