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Brinqa acquires PlexTrac to add penetration testing validation to exposure management

Brinqa acquires PlexTrac to add penetration testing validation to its exposure management platform.

AI News Feed · 2026-08-21 13:19

The purchase adds a capability Brinqa's platform previously lacked. Brinqa collects findings from scanners, cloud accounts and application security tools, then ranks which exposures an organization should address first. Verifying that a remediation worked was done by separate tools. PlexTrac sells the software penetration testers use to run that check and write it up. Brinqa says the combined offering can now cover continuous threat exposure management from discovery through confirmed remediation.

The combined companies serve more than 3,000 customers in 57 countries, including more than 25% of the Fortune 500, Brinqa said. That makes it the largest standalone vendor in unified exposure management. In 2024, Gartner named both companies in its inaugural Magic Quadrant for Exposure Assessment Platforms.

Validation now sits at both ends of the remediation cycle. Testers can establish that an exposure is genuinely exploitable before an engineer is assigned to it, and a retest afterward shows whether the problem is gone. Every confirmed exploit and remediation from PlexTrac feeds Brinqa's Cyber Risk Graph, the data layer its AI agents use.

Brinqa Chief Executive Dan Pagel said PlexTrac "brings real offensive security depth, from practitioners who have spent years proving exactly how attackers get in." Pairing that with Brinqa's assessment platform gives customers evidence they can put before a board, an auditor or an AI system acting on the data, he said.

PlexTrac founder Dan DeCloss joins Brinqa's executive leadership team and its board of directors and will run the combined offensive security practice. PlexTrac's products will continue to sell as standalone offerings, with the option to extend into Brinqa's broader platform later.

The two companies share an investor. Insight Partners led Brinqa's $110 million growth round in June 2021 and PlexTrac's $70 million Series B in February 2022. Brinqa was founded in 2009 in Austin, Texas; PlexTrac is based in Boise, Idaho.

Brinqa reported 164% year-over-year growth in new bookings for 2025 and said new logo bookings more than doubled year-over-year in 2026. The company has shipped AI features, including Model Context Protocol interfaces and agents for attribution and deduplication of findings. Customers include Nestlé SA and SAP SE. PlexTrac counts Expedia Group Inc. and Deloitte among its customers.