Kaska Exposure Management Platform™

Unified cyber risk intelligence around the assets that matter.

Kaska sits above the security stack you already own and turns distributed security intelligence into one asset-centric risk and resilience view — before, during and after a breach.

02 · Architecture

Five layers, one direction.

Signals come in at the bottom. Understanding, decisions and evidence come out at the top. Nothing is scanned or enforced by Kaska itself; it works through the tools you already run.

05Exposure & Resilience Dashboard
Executive viewRisk & resilienceCompliance postureBoard reporting
04Orchestration & Case Management
CasesApprovalsGoverned actionsPlaybooksAudit trail
03Kaska AI Core™
Control validationRisk quantification (FAIR)PrioritisationAI-assisted investigation
02Asset Intelligence Graph
Asset graphCriticalityOwnershipSoftware (xBOM)
01Dual-Path Data Ingestion
SIEM / XDREndpointIdentityCloudVulnerabilityThreat intelligence
The Command Center

One model. Three vantage points.

Above the five layers sits the Command Center — Executive Dashboard, Incident Command and Intelligence Search. The same intelligence is read differently depending on where you stand. An executive opens the dashboard and sees posture, exposure and resilience in business terms. A responder opens incident command and sees the affected assets, the control that failed and the actions available. An auditor searches the intelligence and finds the evidence behind any figure, with its provenance attached. One model, three vantage points — not three products that have to be reconciled.

03 · Asset-Centric Intelligence

Every signal resolves to an asset.

A finding without an owner is a ticket. A finding attached to a specific asset — with its criticality, its software, its controls and its exposure — is a decision.

What it provides

One golden record per asset, assembled from every connected source: what it is, who owns it, how critical it is to the business, what software it carries and what is supposed to protect it.

How it works

Every connector's output passes through one normalisation gate that stamps the tenant and the provenance of each record before it reaches the graph. Records describing the same asset from different tools are resolved into one.

Intelligence it uses

Cloud, endpoint, firewall, vulnerability, network access, backup, key management, external attack surface and OT sources, each contributing what it genuinely knows.

Why it matters

Ten tools produce ten partial inventories. None of them can tell you which system matters most.

Business benefit

Security findings stop being a queue and become a ranked set of decisions with owners.

What changes for you

You can answer what is at risk, who owns it and how badly it matters, from one place.

04 · Intelligence Acquisition

Two kinds of data. Only one comes from your SIEM.

Both are required to answer whether a control is actually working. Only one of them is available from an aggregator.

YOUR EXISTING SECURITY STACKONE CONNECTED PICTURE FORSIEM / XDREDRIAM / PAMCloudVulnerabilityNetworkEmailDataGRCKASKADual-pathacquisitionVALIDATE · QUANTIFYPRIORITISE · RESPONDEVIDENCECISOSecurity teamBoardRegulator
Your existing security stackSIEM / XDR · EDR · IAM / PAM · Cloud · Vulnerability · Network · Email · Data · GRC
KaskaDual-path acquisition: validate, quantify, prioritise, respond, evidence
One connected picture forCISO · Security team · Board · Regulator
What it provides

Two acquisition paths. Event data: already-correlated incidents from IBM QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk and CrowdStrike XDR. Control and OEM intelligence: control validation, posture, misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, findings and alerts read directly from each security tool's API.

How it works

Kaska does not re-correlate raw events; that is the SIEM's job and it is already done well. Each connector declares what it can and cannot determine, so absent data is recorded as absent rather than assumed.

Intelligence it uses

Alongside both paths: external attack surface intelligence, the Kaska vulnerability database, asset and software bill-of-materials intelligence, and MITRE ATT&CK-based threat intelligence.

Why it matters

An incident tells you what happened. It cannot tell you whether the control that should have stopped it was enforced.

Business benefit

You keep your SIEM, and still get the control answer it was never designed to give.

What changes for you

One intelligence model fed by the whole stack, without replacing any of it.

05 · Exposure and Risk

Exposure, weighted by what actually matters.

Risk expressed in business terms, with the method visible and the calibration state shown beside every estimate.

What it provides

FAIR-based cyber risk quantification on the asset graph: Annual Loss Expectancy, Monte Carlo value-at-risk including correlated portfolio VaR, return on security investment, attack-path analysis and exploitability-weighted exposure.

How it works

Risk is computed from asset criticality, measured control effectiveness and live exposure, so the multipliers are driven by validated control state rather than a questionnaire. Attack paths show which exposures chain toward critical systems.

Intelligence it uses

Asset criticality and business context, control validation results, vulnerability and software composition intelligence, exploit-probability scoring.

Why it matters

A colour-coded heat map cannot be argued in a budget meeting, and a number without a method cannot be defended in an audit.

Business benefit

A risk figure the board can act on, with a method you can show to an auditor or an insurer.

What changes for you

Security investment argued in business terms rather than in red, amber and green.

06 · Control Validation

Configured doesn't mean protected.

An MFA policy can exist and still not apply to the accounts that matter. An EDR agent can be deployed and still sit in detection-only mode.

Controls
What it meansOutcome, with its evidence
VerdictNot effective where it matters.

Malicious files are detected on finance hosts but not blocked. Critical server coverage has no evidence yet, so it stays open.

1 validated1 gap1 not assessed
What it provides

Continuous validation across 31 control domains — identity and access, privileged access, endpoint, firewall and network, cloud, email, data protection, backup, vulnerability management, OT/ICS, application security, key management and more, each with domain-specific checks rather than a generic template.

How it works

Configuration becomes evidence, evidence becomes validation, validation becomes a gap with risk context. A severity gate means a critical gap can never aggregate into a passing score, and a domain with no data reads not assessed rather than green.

Intelligence it uses

Configuration and posture read directly from each tool's API, against control definitions mapped to CIS, NIST, ISO and the applicable Indian regulatory frameworks.

Why it matters

Most organisations assume a deployed control is a working control. The gap between the two is where breaches happen.

Business benefit

You discover a control is not working before an attacker does, and before an auditor does.

What changes for you

Specific, evidenced, owned gaps — instead of an assumption that deployment equals protection.

07 · Compliance and Evidence

One validated control. Many requirements.

Compliance and security share the same underlying evidence base — the configuration state of the controls themselves.

What it provides

17 regulatory and standards frameworks on a shared control crosswalk: RBI, DPDPA, CERT-In, SEBI CSCRF, IRDAI, CEA, NCIIPC and MeitY alongside ISO 27001, NIST CSF, PCI-DSS, SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA, FISMA and CIS Controls v8.

How it works

Compliance reads the real control-validation result and maps each finding to the framework controls it satisfies. Controls with no assessed check are excluded from scoring rather than counted as compliant.

Intelligence it uses

Control validation findings and their evidence, mapped through the framework crosswalk.

Why it matters

Compliance is usually operated as a separate workload, re-gathering evidence the security team already holds.

Business benefit

One validated control satisfies clauses across several frameworks simultaneously, so the evidence base is shared rather than rebuilt.

What changes for you

Audit answers that come from measurement, assembled continuously instead of in the fortnight before the audit.

08 · Vulnerability and xBOM Intelligence

Know what you run, and what in it is exploitable.

Software supply-chain risk, expressed as exposure on a specific system rather than a line in a report.

What it provides

Software composition analysis correlated to vulnerability intelligence: CycloneDX and SPDX ingestion, component inventory, version-range correlation, licence-risk findings, and a CERT-In Technical Guidelines v2.0 scorecard alongside RBI, MeitY, EO 14028 and EU CRA framing.

How it works

Components bind to the assets that run them. A vulnerability is then weighted by whether it is known to be exploited, how likely exploitation is, and how critical the asset carrying it happens to be.

Intelligence it uses

Customer-supplied bills of materials, CVE, KEV and EPSS vulnerability intelligence, and the asset graph.

Why it matters

You cannot defend software you cannot enumerate, and most organisations cannot enumerate it.

Business benefit

Software supply-chain risk becomes a regulatory deliverable built from inputs you already have.

What changes for you

Component risk, ranked by exploitability and by the importance of the system carrying it.

09 · Threat Intelligence

Weighted by what attackers actually use.

Severity tells you how bad a vulnerability could be. Exploitation pressure tells you whether to care this week.

What it provides

MITRE ATT&CK-based threat intelligence across enterprise, ICS and ATLAS technique coverage, known-exploited vulnerability catalogues, exploit-probability scoring and external attack surface intelligence.

How it works

Ingested on a schedule without customer credentials and held as platform-wide reference data, then used to weight exposure and to map incidents to adversary technique.

Intelligence it uses

Public threat intelligence sources, adversary technique catalogues and exploit-probability data.

Why it matters

A backlog ranked by severity alone sends your team to the wrong work.

Business benefit

Remediation effort goes to the small set of issues under real exploitation pressure.

What changes for you

Fewer priorities, each of which you can justify.

10 · Pre-Breach Risk Intelligence

Understand and prepare.

Five groups of intelligence, all written to the same asset record. Most security work begins when an alert fires. By then the conditions that allowed the attack have been in place for weeks.

Risk & Exposure

Exposure register · risk quantification · business impact

Asset Intelligence

Asset inventory · bill of materials (xBOM) · data risk · OT/ICS security · GenAI risk · user behaviour

Threat & Exposure

Attack paths · threat intelligence · threat hunting · threat simulation · threat forecast · external attack surface · MITRE ATT&CK

Controls & Compliance

Control validation · compliance · check library · Zero Trust posture · vulnerabilities

Resilience & Third-Party

Cyber resilience scoring against NIST CSF · vendor risk portfolio

How it works

Connectors build the asset record. Controls are validated against each asset. Unvalidated controls, vulnerabilities and misconfigurations become exposure. Attack paths show which of those chain toward critical systems. Threat intelligence weights them. Risk quantification converts the result into business terms.

Why it matters

The misconfigured control, the open path and the over-privileged account are all present long before the alert.

Business benefit

Act on the conditions that make a breach possible, rather than on the alert that says one has started.

What changes for you

Gaps are found and closed while they are still cheap to fix.

11 · Real-Time Breach Intelligence

Contextualise, prioritise and respond.

Your SIEM or XDR correlates events into an incident and hands it to Kaska. Kaska does not repeat that work. It adds the five things the SIEM has no structural way of knowing.

Which assets

The systems affected, and how critical each one is to the business.

Which controls failed

The incident attributed to the specific control gaps that allowed it.

What else is exposed

Vulnerabilities, software components and attack paths on those same assets, from the same graph.

What it is worth

Business impact and financial exposure, in the terms the decision will be made in.

What may be done

A case with a named owner and a governed action, inside approved boundaries.

Already in place

Because the pre-breach intelligence was built beforehand, the context is there the moment the signal arrives rather than assembled after it.

Why it matters

Your SIEM saw what happened. It cannot tell you which control was supposed to stop it, or what that failure is worth.

Business benefit

Decisions made with the context already assembled, instead of gathered across ten consoles while the clock runs.

What changes for you

A decisive call in minutes, with the reasoning recorded.

12 · Post-Breach Resilience

Close the gap permanently, and prove it.

Most organisations survive an incident and change nothing structural. The same weakness is still there for the next attacker.

ONE INTELLIGENCE LOOPSame assets. Same context.Before, during and after.BEFORE A BREACHDURING A BREACHAFTER A BREACHAssetFinding / IncidentCaseActionEvidenceRisk scoreReportReassessmentResilience

Recovery feeds the model forward, so the same class of attack should not succeed twice. Every incident informs reassessment; every fix is verified.

01Incident
02Recovery
03Evidence
04Reassessment
05Control revalidation
06Risk reassessment
07Resilience improvement
Incident reconstruction

The timeline, entry point, lateral movement and the assets involved at each step.

Symptom versus control failure

What your tools detected, separated from what actually allowed it — attributed to the specific pre-breach gap, with an owner.

Evidence

Every response action and approval sealed into a tamper-evident chain, so the record is verifiable rather than narrated.

Recovery

Recovery steps orchestrated against the affected assets, with backup integrity and recovery readiness assessed as part of the plan.

Revalidation

The control that failed is re-validated. A case may close only when the fix is confirmed, not when it is asserted.

Risk reassessment

Risk recomputed on the updated asset model, and attack paths re-counted to confirm the route is actually broken.

Resilience score movement

The resilience score and compliance position move with the result, so improvement is visible rather than claimed.

Updating the asset graph

The closed case writes back. Next time Kaska assesses that asset, what was learned here is already part of the picture.

Why it matters

An incident you survive but do not learn from is an incident you will have again.

Business benefit

A defensible record for the regulator, the board and the insurer — and a measurable improvement rather than a claimed one.

What changes for you

The same class of attack does not succeed twice, and you can show precisely why.

13 · Kaska Agents

AI-assisted. Governed by humans. Proven by evidence.

Kaska does not stop at telling you what is wrong. Its agents work against the same asset-centric intelligence that drives risk, control validation and exposure — validating, investigating, prioritising, responding and verifying across the breach lifecycle.

Observe → Validate → Prioritize → Govern → Act → Seal → Revalidate

Before a breach

Validate controls across 31 domains · model attack paths to critical assets · simulate adversary techniques · detect drift from a known-good posture · forecast where exposure is building.

During a breach

Investigate the incident through a structured eight-phase analysis · enrich with asset, control and vulnerability context · map to MITRE ATT&CK · prioritise by business impact · open a case with a named owner · execute the approved response.

After a breach

Seal every action into the evidence chain · reproduce the incident timeline · orchestrate recovery steps · re-validate the control that failed · confirm the fix held before the case closes.

Governance

Not a setting. The architecture.

Before any action runs, Kaska evaluates it against the risk of the action itself, the criticality of the asset it touches, whether it can be reversed, and the autonomy level you have set. The answer is either proceed, or a named person at this level must approve — and Kaska tells you which, and why.

Four autonomy levels

Manual, assisted, auto-low-risk and auto. Kaska ships on assisted.

Irreversible actions

Treated separately, and never auto-execute by default.

Safety floor

A hard floor that forces approval regardless of configuration.

Explainable

Every decision returns the rule that produced it, in language a reviewer can read.

Control validation

Reads each tool directly and reports whether a control is enforced across 31 domains. Produces findings; takes no action.

Investigation

An eight-phase incident investigation that enriches, correlates, maps to MITRE ATT&CK and recommends a response. Structured by design, so the same incident produces the same reasoning. Recommends only.

Response

Executes the approved action through the tools you already run — isolating an endpoint, blocking an address, revoking cloud permissions, quarantining mail. Executes only when a named human has approved.

Verification

Re-checks the control after remediation and confirms the system is both secure and recoverable before a case may close. An indeterminate result fails the gate.

Kaska combines structured automation, governed autonomy and AI-based explanation where it genuinely helps — with a human approving what executes, and an evidence trail proving what happened.

14 · Governed Response and Orchestration

Speed, without surrendering control.

Automation you can defend in an audit, because the rule that allowed it is explicit and recorded.

The result is reported with the evidence behind every figure, and the loop begins again.

Kaska EM · sample organisationReport
Asset
Exposure
Control
Kaska finds
Risk
Priority
Case · action
Verification
Payments APIApplication
Known-exploited flaw
Patching · MFA
Re-validatedGap closed
Low
1
Application teamCase opened · approval required
LiveRe-validated
Finance endpointsEndpoints
Unpatched software
Endpoint protection
GapDetect-only
High
2
Endpoint teamCase opened · change scheduled
In progress
Cloud storageCloud
Publicly readable
Access policy
GapOpen bucket
High
3
Cloud teamCase opened · approval required
Awaiting approval
Customer portalApplication
Public-facing
Web application firewall
ValidatedBlocking mode
Med
–
—
Live
Email tenantEmail
Phishing target
DMARC
ValidatedEnforced
Low
–
—
Live
Backup vaultResilience
Ransomware target
Immutability
ValidatedImmutable copy
Low
–
—
Live
Plant networkOT
—
Segmentation
Not assessedNo connected source
—
–
Connect a source
Not assessed
Board report ready. One gap closed and verified; two in progress; every figure sourced.Reassessment scheduled

Illustrative data. Select a step, or let it play.

What it provides

Case creation and assignment, prioritisation, approval workflow with required approver tiers and timeouts, playbook execution (built-in and customer-defined), and response actions across EDR, firewall, identity, PAM, cloud, DNS, email, backup, SIEM and ticketing.

How it works

Every action is evaluated against its own risk, the criticality tier of the asset it touches, whether it is reversible, and the tenant's autonomy level. The engine returns either proceed or approval required at this tier, together with the reason.

Intelligence it uses

The case, the asset record, control state, the configured autonomy policy and the approver directory.

Why it matters

Automation without governance is unsellable to anyone accountable for a production environment.

Business benefit

Response at machine speed, inside boundaries a named person set and a reviewer can inspect.

What changes for you

Faster containment, with a defensible answer to why each action was permitted.

15 · Evidence and Auditability

Proof that survives the person who made it.

Finding → Case → Approval → Action → Evidence → Verification → Revalidation, with every step sealed.

Kaska EM · sample organisation
Kaska EMAlso in the platformAssetsCasesSoftware (xBOM)Compliance
EvidenceEvery insight has a source
Evidence itemSourceType
User and MFA registration recordsIdentity directoryLive
MFA coverage calculationKaska EMDerived
Risk estimateRisk modelProvisional
Onboarding walkthrough dataKaska EMSample
Endpoint prevention policyNo connected sourceNot assessed
LiveRead directly from your systems.
Derived · ProvisionalCalculated from measured data, or awaiting calibration.
Not assessedNo evidence yet, and never shown as a pass.

Product interface shown with illustrative data. Select a view, or open a finding.

What it provides

A tamper-evident record of everything that happened: each case event hashed and chained to its predecessor, so the sequence cannot be altered after the fact.

How it works

Each event is hashed with SHA-256 and chained from a genesis root, written under a lock so the chain cannot fork. Altering any earlier event breaks every hash that follows it.

Intelligence it uses

Case events, approvals, executed actions, verification results and their provenance.

Why it matters

An audit trail that can be edited is not an audit trail.

Business benefit

An auditor, a regulator or an insurer can verify the record rather than trust your account of it.

What changes for you

What was done, by whom and under what approval, is provable rather than asserted.

16 · Resilience

One number the board and the SOC both recognise.

Resilience is the objective. Controls are the means, and evidence is how you tell the difference between the two.

What it provides

A resilience view scored across preparedness, detection capability, response speed, recovery capacity and continuity assurance, with board-ready reporting in plain language.

How it works

The console and the board report read the same resilience view, so they cannot disagree. Areas without evidence are reported as such rather than hidden.

Intelligence it uses

Control validation state, exposure, incident history, recovery readiness and the evidence chain.

Why it matters

A board paper assembled by hand each quarter is out of date before it is presented, and cannot be traced back to anything.

Business benefit

Improvement you can demonstrate over successive quarters, from the same evidence that runs the platform.

What changes for you

One position on resilience, consistent wherever it is read.

17 · Integrations

Above the stack you already run.

Cloud-delivered tools connect through vendor APIs with no agent or appliance. Tools behind the perimeter reach Kaska through one light, outbound-only collector. Read-only access wherever possible, and connector credentials encrypted at rest.

SIEM / XDR

Already-correlated incidents and events

Identity & PAM

Accounts, entitlements, privileged access

Endpoint

Agent coverage, policy and posture

Network & Firewall

Rulebase, segmentation, exposure

Cloud

Posture, entitlements and configuration

Vulnerability Management

Findings bound to assets

Email

Protection state and detections

Application Security

Software findings and composition

Data Protection

Classification, encryption and access

Backup & Recovery

Immutability, retention, recovery readiness

OT / ICS

Zones, segmentation and device posture

Ticketing & Notification

Where the work and the alerts already go

Tell us the tools you run and we will confirm integration fit for each.

How Kaska connects
18 · Benefits and outcomes

What changes when this is in place.

Technical capability matters only to the degree it changes what your organisation can see, decide and prove.

Understand what is actually at risk

Control state measured from the tools themselves, not inferred from a deployment record.

Understand why the risk exists

Every figure carries its source and its state, so a conclusion can be examined rather than accepted.

Prioritise what matters

Ranking combines asset criticality, control effectiveness and live exploitability.

Validate whether controls work

31 domains, evidence on every finding, and unmeasured controls reported as unmeasured.

Reduce fragmented decisions

One record and one evidence trail instead of reconciling ten consoles.

Respond through governed workflows

Named approval, explicit boundaries, execution through the tools you already run.

Prove what was done

A tamper-evident chain covering every approval and every action.

Verify that remediation held

A case closes only when the fix is confirmed, not when it is claimed.

Improve resilience continuously

Every closed case updates the shared model, so the same weakness does not recur.

By audience

Who gets what.

The same intelligence, read for the question each role is accountable for.

CISO

Know which controls are genuinely enforced, where the gaps are, and be able to defend both answers under questioning.

Board

A plain-language position on cyber risk and resilience, in business terms, without a translation layer.

Security Operations

Incident context assembled before the call is made, and response executed inside approved boundaries.

Risk and GRC

Risk derived from measured control effectiveness rather than from a survey, updated continuously.

Audit and Compliance

One validated control satisfying clauses across multiple frameworks, with verifiable evidence attached to each.

IT and Infrastructure

Gaps that are specific, owned and actionable, with the remediation path and its approval already defined.

Business owners

Clarity on which systems carry the most consequence, and what is being done about them.

See Kaska in action

See the capabilities on your questions.

Tell us what you need to prove, to leadership or to a regulator. We'll show you how Kaska EM approaches it.