Operationalizing Threat Exposure with Agentic AI: Meet Agent Nova
The Challenge: From Endless Dashboards to Fast, Precise Answers
Security teams today are inundated with dashboards, data feeds, and complex queries. When every second counts, what they really need are clear answers and next steps delivered instantly.
That is where Agent Nova, powered by Agentic AI in Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Management (ETM), comes in. Nova transforms simple natural-language questions into enriched, prioritized insights and then drives the next logical action autonomously.
Instead of hunting across tools, Nova brings clarity in seconds.
“Which of my newly discovered internet-facing assets have vulnerabilities exploited by threat actors?”
Within moments, Nova delivers context-rich results and offers guided actions, ensuring no threat exposure lingers unmanaged.
How Agent Nova Works
Agent Nova is designed to operationalize cyber exposure management. You start by asking a question and Nova interprets your intent, runs the right CyberSecurity Asset Management (CSAM)/External Attack Surface Management (EASM) queries, and provides contextual insights. Data is enriched with threat actor intelligence, exploitability, and toxic risk conditions. Finally, Nova prompts the next best action, whether isolating assets, notifying owners, or initiating remediation.
Just like Agent Vikram eliminates cloud blind spots and Agent Nyra prioritizes threats with adversary context, Nova ensures that exposures across your attack surface are identified, understood, and acted upon with autonomy.
Agent Nova in Action: From Questions to Remediation
To see Nova in action, consider these examples that show how simple prompts turn into fast, actionable outcomes.
Example: Discovery with Context
You ask, “Which of my newly discovered internet-facing assets have vulnerabilities?” Nova instantly identifies the subset of assets that are both newly discovered and vulnerable. Instead of spending hours cross-referencing scan data and inventory, the answer is ready in seconds.
Example: Threat Actor and Toxic Risk Insight
You then ask, “Which of these vulnerabilities are being exploited by threat actors?” Nova overlays threat intelligence to show which vulnerabilities are actively exploited, for instance by Scattered Spider, and highlights the riskiest combinations, like internet-facing systems with high-severity CVEs, known exploits, and risky ports. Analysts can focus on the riskiest assets rather than sifting through noise.
Example: Ownership and Remediation
Finally, you ask, “Who owns these vulnerable systems?” Nova maps the exposures to asset owners, whether internal teams or vendors, and offers to notify them or kick off remediation workflows automatically. What once required days of lookups and manual follow-ups is compressed into minutes.
These examples show how Nova compresses hours of effort into a few guided exchanges, ensuring exposures are discovered, enriched with threat context, prioritized, and routed for action without manual toil.
Why Nova Matters
Agent Nova is more than automation. It is Agentic AI applied to exposure management. Nova eliminates the friction between data and action by providing plain-language answers to critical security questions, enriching vulnerabilities with threat actor and exploit intelligence, highlighting toxic combinations that demand immediate attention, and linking directly to asset ownership for faster remediation.
With Nova, the cycle from detection to resolution accelerates dramatically, turning what once took hours or days into seconds.
From Questions to Actions Instantly
With Agent Nova, every query becomes a decision and every decision turns into action. No blind spots. No dashboard fatigue. No delays. Just smarter, faster, autonomous exposure management powered by Agentic AI on the Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Management Platform.
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