Sevco’s First Principles Approach to Transforming Vulnerability Management
Five years ago, we founded Sevco with a vision born from a deep-seated frustration with our industry. Today, I am incredibly excited, proud, and humbled to announce that Sevco has been named a Visionary in the first-ever Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Exposure Assessment Platforms.
We think this recognition is, first and foremost, a testament to the incredible team here at Sevco. Their talent, dedication, and relentless focus on solving our customers’ hardest problems made this possible. It’s also a validation from our amazing customers and partners who believed in our vision, challenged us to be better, and shared in our mission. We wouldn’t be here without you. This is a victory lap for all of us. Thank you!
The Industry’s Broken Record
I’ve watched security teams get stuck in a demoralizing loop my entire career. We’re drowning in vulnerabilities, with new ones popping up every day. The “best practice” advice we’ve been given for 20 years – “just prioritize by technical severity and business context and patch what you can afford to” – is impossible to implement on modern networks. Why? Because the underlying data is a mess. We have new attack surfaces appearing every year, dozens of vulnerability scanners, incomplete inventories, siloed systems that don’t talk to each other, and no way to reconcile the conflicting information. It’s chaos.
The result is security teams are constantly reacting, chasing the CVE of the day, and running a vulnerability management process just to say they’re running a process. It’s working harder, not smarter. Security breaches happen not because our tools aren’t good enough, but because they aren’t deployed on assets we didn’t know we had. We’ve been trying to build skyscrapers on foundations of quicksand.
Our First-Principles Approach: It’s a Data Problem
When we started Sevco, we went back to first principles. We asked “why” over and over until we got to the simple but profound root cause: This is not a vulnerability problem; it is a data problem.
For decades, every major security framework – NIST, CIS, ISO, PCI, HIPAA, GBLA and more – has had an accurate asset inventory as control number one. It’s the blocking and tackling of cybersecurity. And yet, as an industry, we’ve failed to provide it. Sevco’s original vision was to fix that foundation first. We believed that if you get the data right, the rest falls into place.
This is our “bottoms-up” approach: we don’t start with vulnerabilities; we start by building a comprehensive, real-time, and accurate inventory of every asset in your environment – devices, identities, software, cloud resources, and controls. We do this by connecting to the tools you already have via API, aggregating and correlating all their disparate data to create a single, unified source of truth. We call this our Cybersecurity Data Fabric, from which we build the “Unified Asset Graph.”
We believe the combination of this vision, our first-principles data-oriented approach and the quality of our product embodying these principles is why Gartner recognized Sevco a Visionary.
Better Data, Better Decisions, Better Outcomes, Reduced Risk
What does this mean for you? It means you can finally move from chaos to clarity.
Instead of wrestling with spreadsheets or sinking resources into a DIY data warehouse that never quite works, you get a platform that delivers value in minutes. You can see what you actually have, identify where security controls are missing (we find 20 – 30% of devices are missing a critical endpoint agent), and understand your true exposure.
With Sevco, you’re not just enriching a list of vulnerabilities with some asset data; you are enriching your comprehensive asset inventory with vulnerability data. It allows you to prioritize based on a complete picture – not just a CVE score, but the criticality of the asset, who uses it, what other compensating controls are in place, and what its relationships are to the rest of the business. This is how we deliver real-world results and an incredible return on investment, with independent third-party studies showing recurring ROI of over 200% for our customers.
We offer the industry’s only feature-complete, fully integrated exposure assessment platform that customers love to use.
Let’s Build a Better Future, Together.
We believe being positioned a Visionary by Gartner validates our vision is the right one for the future of cybersecurity. We are building the system of record for cybersecurity.
As Peter Drucker said, “You can’t manage what you can’t measure”. For too long, our industry has been trying to manage risk without being able to accurately measure its foundation. That ends now.
If you’re ready to stop chasing vulnerabilities, stop spinning your vulnerability management wheels and start building a resilient security program on a foundation of truth, let’s talk. Book a demo today.
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1. Source: Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Exposure Assessment Platforms, Mitchell Schneider, Dhivya Poole, Jonathan Nunez, 10 November 2025.