TLDR: Maze has been recognized as a Cloud Security Segment Leader in the 2025 Latio Cloud Security Report — an acknowledgment that underscores a major shift in how the industry is approaching vulnerability management.

The Industry Is Evolving and We’re Defining What Comes Next

In the report, James notes that the future of cloud security is moving beyond CNAPP, splitting the “everything security platform” into three distinct sectors:  Application Security Testing (AST), Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM), and Cloud Application Detection and Response (CADR). Maze stands at the center of this cloud security transformation. While historically, we don’t define ourselves as being part of a specific category, we believe that each of these categories has a valuable role to play and that modern solutions have something to learn from each of these technologies. 

Now, this highlights a growing divide between traditional CNAPP approaches and emerging platforms that prioritize real exploitability over noise. Teams never wanted a dashboard showing thousands of “critical” alerts, they want to know which vulnerabilities can actually be exploited in their environment and very prescriptive details on how to fix them.

That’s exactly the problem Maze was built to solve.

“A struggle in vulnerability management is the unique nature of every CVE — no single method of reachability can ultimately account for every edge case in the way AI can.” — Latio 2025 Cloud Security Market Report

Think about Maze as your new vulnerability management magnifying glass. Pretend you have tens of thousands of security engineers, each with expertise in their own domain (network, infra, identity, etc). Our agents conduct deep, case-by-case investigations into vulnerabilities across containers, and workloads, reasoning their way through exploit paths, environmental context, and compensating controls to determine what truly poses a risk.

Why Maze? 

You know that scene from The Matrix where Smith replicates himself thousands of times? Taking one incredibly talented agent and turning himself into an unstoppable force (unless you are The One, of course). Maze gives you that capability. 

Our agents can deeply interrogate and understand a vulnerability in much the same way that a highly experienced security engineer might. Each CVE is treated as a unique scenario, with contextual reasoning and evidence-based validation to confirm whether it’s exploitable. And you can do hundreds of thousands of these all at once, automatically. 

It’s no secret that traditional scanners produce mountains of alerts, some are true positives, however, many are not. Maze reduces that noise by testing just how exploitable a vulnerability is within the full context of your environment. And this goes far beyond the rule-based prior solutions that only looked at very generic rules, like whether a public IP existed. When we say something is exploitable, it means our agents have checked all of the prerequisites for the environment, documenting whether a vulnerability is actually reachable, and assessing the technical conditions that would enable exploitation, complete with detailed evidence for you to validate.

But we don't stop there. Our agents have the ability to study each vulnerability on a case-by-case basis, evaluating both the likelihood of real-world exploitation and the potential impact on your specific operations for each individual vulnerability. This approach not only saves you time but gives teams the confidence to deprioritize non-exploitable issues and concentrate resources on the vulnerabilities that pose genuine risk, dramatically cutting your remediation backlog and ensuring a higher degree of efficiency when you do need to remediate.

And speaking of remediation efficiency, we all know that tossing a vulnerability into Jira doesn't really help developers fix problems. That’s why our agents automatically dive deep into the overall context around a vulnerability, and then combine findings across posture, vulnerability, and runtime data into a single, context-rich view. By connecting vulnerabilities to the context behind why they were created and the assets that run them, we’re not just identifying issues; we’re helping teams fix them. 

What comes next?

The Latio report marks a clear inflection point in our industry. CNAPPs do a great job at scanning and finding the problem, however, the future of security is asking for more than simply identifying the issues. By combining agentic reasoning, automation, and deep context, Maze isn't just streamlining vulnerability management or giving some baseline vulnerability research; we are fundamentally changing what “critical” means in cloud security. So, when we say a vulnerability is exploitable, it truly is, and that’s the beating heart of risk management. 

This recognition affirms that teams don’t need more alerts; they need better reasoning. They don’t need broader visibility; they need deeper understanding.

And that’s exactly what Maze delivers.

If you’re interested in seeing what the cutting-edge vulnerability management could do for your environment, reach out to our team and request a demo today.