Brinqa Extends Momentum in First Half of 2026 with AI Innovation, Strategic Expansion and Leadership Growth

Brinqa, the leader in exposure management for enterprise security teams, announced strong first-half 2026 momentum, driven by continued innovation in AI capabilities, strategic ecosystem partnerships, industry recognition and further investment in leadership and organizational scale. New logo bookings more than doubled year-over-year in H1 2026, while existing customers expanded their Brinqa deployments by 4x, reflecting both growing market demand for AI-driven exposure management and strong platform adoption within the enterprise.

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H1 2026 key highlights

• New logo bookings more than doubled year-over-year
• Existing customer deployments expanded 4x
• Named ‘Notable Vendor’ in Forrester’s Proactive Security Platforms Landscape, Q1 2026
• Strategic integration with Horizon3.ai for attack-path validated prioritization
• Available on Google Cloud Marketplace; joined Torq AMP Alliance Program
• Rebranded the Brinqa Expert Team to Forward Deployed Engineering Team to more closely align with market naming conventions
• Four executive appointments across AI, engineering, finance, and product innovation

The results build on a transformational 2025, and reflect growing enterprise demand for modern, data-driven approaches to exposure management that can operate at the scale and complexity of today’s environments.

“CISOs aren’t asking ‘what do we have?’ anymore. They’re asking ‘what do we fix first, and how do we prove it mattered?’ Those are different questions than this industry was built to answer, and they require a different kind of platform,” said Dan Pagel, CEO of Brinqa. “AI is changing the economics of cyber risk in both directions: more exposures surfaced faster, and boards that expect clear answers on what gets fixed and why. The demand we’re seeing in H1 reflects how urgent that shift has become.”

Advancing AI-powered exposure management

During the first half of 2026, Brinqa advanced its platform with new AI capabilities with the launch of AI Attribution Agent and AI Deduplication Agent. These agents addressed two of the most persistent operational challenges in exposure management: identifying who owns an exposure and determining which findings represent genuinely distinct risks. By automating ownership attribution and eliminating duplicate findings at scale, the new capabilities help security teams focus remediation resources on the exposures most likely to impact the business.

Brinqa also introduced its Bring Your Own AI (BYOAI) model, giving enterprise customers the flexibility to connect their preferred AI models directly to Brinqa’s governed exposure data. Teams can use Brinqa’s native AI agents out of the box, or integrate existing AI infrastructure via API or MCP. Either way, every recommendation runs on the CyberRisk Graph™, grounded in verified records and traceable to source data.

Rebrand of Brinqa Expert Team to Forward Deployed Engineering Team

Brinqa rebranded its Brinqa Expert Team to Forward Deployed Engineers (FDE), a dedicated practice of senior engineers who embed directly with customers to design and deploy AI-powered workflows on top of the Brinqa platform. As enterprise security teams increasingly look to operationalize AI within their exposure management programs, the demand for hands-on implementation expertise has grown significantly. Brinqa’s FDEs will continue to bridge the gap between platform capability and customer outcomes, working at the intersection of cybersecurity, data engineering, and applied AI to accelerate time-to-value for complex enterprise environments.

Brinqa’s FDE model has been in place for several years and the team will double down here over the remainder of 2026. Rather than traditional professional services focused on configuration and onboarding, FDEs act as technical partners who build production-ready integrations, custom automation, and AI-driven workflows tailored to each customer’s environment. This investment continues to position Brinqa to support the growing segment of security organizations that are ready to move beyond dashboards and into active, AI-assisted risk reduction.

Leadership investments support continued growth

To support its continued growth, Brinqa also strengthened its leadership team with the following key appointments across AI, technology, finance and product innovation.

• Ron Dovich, Chief AI and Automation Officer: Ron was previously SVP of Engineering for over four years at Brinqa and will now lead the company’s AI and automation strategy, bringing more than 25 years of experience building enterprise cybersecurity products at companies such as AT&T and AlienVault.
• David Allen, Chief Technology Officer: David will lead Brinqa’s engineering, cloud operations and information security operations teams. With more than 20 years of technology and security leadership experience, including executive roles at Prevalent, BeyondTrust and eEye Digital Security, he is focused on scaling Brinqa’s platform and accelerating product innovation.
• Steve Biagioni, Chief Financial Officer: Steve joins Brinqa after serving as CFO at Valimail, bringing more than a decade of financial leadership experience at high-growth cybersecurity companies.
• James Walta, Vice President of Product: A longtime Brinqa leader, James steps into his new role after nine years with the company. With expertise in vulnerability and exposure management and deep relationships with customers and prospects, he has helped enterprise customers translate complex cybersecurity challenges into measurable risk reduction and will continue leading product innovation initiatives.

“The problems we’re solving don’t get simpler as we scale. They get more complex,” concluded Pagel. “That’s why we’re investing in leaders who’ve seen those problems up close and know what it takes to solve them.”

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