Vector: Adversarial Exposure Validation
Vector probes your approved external scope the way an attacker would, then validates every finding against the controls you already deployed, so only genuinely breachable exposure reaches your team.
Why most external testing stops at exposed
- A point-in-time engagement expires the day it ships. The report was accurate when it was written. Then a subdomain goes up, an IAM role gets widened to unblock a deploy, and a WAF rule relaxed during an incident never goes back.
- Attack surface tools tell you what is visible, not what is breachable. Assets, services, subdomains and exposed identities are a lead, not a finding. Whether an attacker can use any of it is a separate question nobody answers automatically.
- Nothing checks the finding against the controls you already deployed. A critical on a path your WAF already blocks costs a team the same triage hours as one nothing stops, and most of a quarter gets spent proving things were never a problem.
The Inflection PointWhy this matters right now
AI-driven research now compresses discovery and weaponization from weeks to minutes, while external surfaces change daily. A quarterly red team engagement samples that surface once and describes a company that no longer exists by the time the tickets are worked.
The bottleneck is no longer finding what is exposed. It is proving, continuously, which exposures are actually breachable in this environment today. Vector is the outside-in entry point to that loop, and it is available now.
How Vector works
1Scope
Operates strictly inside customer-approved external scope, with the boundaries agreed before a single probe runs.
2Probe
Tests that surface the way an attacker would, using current TTPs, newly disclosed vulnerabilities and AI-driven attack techniques.
3Ground
Drops every finding into the Security Data Fabric and checks it against your topology, identities, deployed controls and existing tool findings.
4Validate
Determines whether the controls you already run would actually break this path on this asset, rather than crediting coverage on paper.
5Close
Recommends or stages the control change that shuts the path, through tools the organization already licenses, where policy allows.
6Re-test
Re-runs the same path after the change to prove it stayed shut, because a closed ticket and a closed path are different claims.
Works across 150+ integrations →
The five questions every Vector finding answers
A finding does not arrive as a severity score. It arrives answered.
- Is it exposed? Visible and reachable from outside the perimeter.
- Can an attacker use it? Exploitable as deployed, in this configuration, not in a lab.
- Do existing controls already stop it? Tested against your WAF, EDR, NGFW and IAM as they are configured today.
- If not, where does it lead? The onward path and the blast radius behind the entry point.
- What is the fastest way to close the path? The specific control change that shuts it, usually before a patch window opens.
What Vector finds
A New Subdomain Nobody Told Security About
Filter chain: asset appears in external scope → service fingerprinted → exploit attempted → control coverage tested → verdict issued.
What Vector determines: the host went live on Thursday, runs a version with a known exploit, and sits outside the WAF policy applied to the rest of the estate.
How Vector closes it: recommends extending the existing WAF policy to the new host, then re-tests the same path to confirm the exploit no longer lands.
A Critical CVE Your WAF Already Blocks
Filter chain: CVE published → asset internet-facing → exploit attempted → blocked at the edge → finding closed with evidence.
What Vector determines: the vulnerability is present and reachable, and the control you already run breaks the exploit in its current configuration.
How Vector closes it: closes the finding with the evidence showing which control stopped the path, which is also the artifact the auditor wanted.
An Exposed Identity With More Reach Than Expected
Filter chain: credential or token surfaced externally → validated against the identity model → permissions resolved → onward path mapped.
What Vector determines: the identity is usable from outside and its permissions reach further into the estate than the owning team assumed.
How Vector closes it: prescribes the IAM restriction that collapses the reach, and hands Kairo the entry point to extend into the full internal path.
A Relaxed Control Nobody Put Back
Filter chain: path previously blocked → re-tested on schedule → exploit now lands → control drift identified.
What Vector determines: a rule changed during an incident or a deploy, and a path that used to be closed is open again.
How Vector closes it: flags the specific configuration drift and the change that restores the block, then re-tests to confirm.
Every external finding evaluated against the live state of your environment and your deployed controls, continuously, not on an engagement calendar.
Competitive Landscape: The Three Camps
External attack surface management
Inventory what is visible from the internet: assets, services, subdomains, exposed identities and misconfigurations.
Vector treats visibility as the starting point, then attempts the exploit and checks the result against the controls you already deployed, so what reaches the team is a verdict rather than a lead.
Penetration testing and red team services
Deep, creative, human-led testing that produces a high-quality report on the day the engagement ends.
Vector runs continuously rather than on a calendar, so a subdomain that appears on Thursday is tested Thursday, and findings stay current as the environment moves underneath them.
Breach and attack simulation
Replay known attacker techniques against agents and defined scenarios to measure control coverage.
Vector works outside-in against the real external surface rather than a scripted scenario set, and grounds every result in your own topology, identities and risk context.
Tuskira (Vector)
Autonomous red teaming inside customer-approved scope, reasoning over the same Security Data Fabric that powers Kairo, Lattice, Quell and Iris.
Vector answers whether they can get in, proves it against deployed controls, prescribes the change that closes the path, and re-tests to confirm it stayed shut.
Where Vector fits in the loop
Vector is not a standalone scanner bolted onto the side of the platform. It is the outside-in entry point into a loop that already existed, and every agent reasons over the same model of your environment.
- Vector asks can they get in.
- Kairo asks where can they go.
- Lattice asks what matters most.
- Quell asks whether a newly disclosed CVE opens a path.
- Iris asks what happened and what should be done about it.
That shared model is why a Vector finding can hand Iris an investigation with asset, identity and blast-radius context already attached, and why Kairo can extend an external entry point into the full path to a crown jewel without anyone re-entering the data. Across Tuskira deployments, Kairo has deprioritized up to 99% of scanner findings as unreachable. Vector applies the same discipline to everything an attacker can see from outside.
What our customers say
“2026 is the year cyber defenses are seeing the shift from AI-assisted attacks to AI-enabled attacks, and defenders need to adapt. That’s why Intrado partnered with Tuskira.”
Charles Gifford, CISO, Intrado
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