The cybersecurity industry built a $200B business selling you problems. Nobody got paid to fix them.

Cybersecurity has never been better at finding risk. Organizations can identify vulnerable servers, dormant user accounts, excessive privileges, exposed cloud assets, and software flaws in near real time. The market has rewarded that capability handsomely, with global cybersecurity spending projected to exceed the half-trillion-dollar range as enterprises continue investing in tools that promise greater visibility into their environments.

Yet visibility has not translated into fewer breaches. IBM’s 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report found that the average cost of a breach remains above $4 million globally, while Verizon’s 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report shows attackers continue to exploit familiar weaknesses such as stolen credentials, privilege misuse, and configuration errors. Security teams are rarely unaware of these risks; they simply struggle to eliminate them before attackers strike.

Reclaim Security has been watching this disconnect closely. Rather than entering the crowded market for identifying more problems, the company is focused on what happens after a security issue is discovered: how organizations can remediate it at scale without creating operational disruption. As enterprises rethink what they expect from security platforms, Reclaim Security believes remediation is becoming just as important as detection.

The industry became exceptionally good at discovery

For years, cybersecurity innovation has centered on helping organizations answer a single question: What could go wrong? Every major category, such as vulnerability management, cloud security, identity governance, attack surface management, and exposure management, was designed to uncover another layer of risk.

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That investment has produced unprecedented visibility. Security teams today often have dozens of dashboards highlighting thousands of findings across cloud environments, SaaS applications, endpoints, and identity systems. The challenge is that discovering a problem is only the beginning of the process.

Fixing it usually requires coordination across IT, identity, cloud, and application teams, each with competing priorities and limited resources. As a result, organizations frequently accumulate growing remediation backlogs even while investing in more sophisticated detection technologies.

A business model built around finding, not fixing

The economics of cybersecurity have naturally favored discovery. Vendors compete on broader coverage, richer analytics, and faster detection because those capabilities are relatively easy to measure. Remediation, by contrast, is slower, more operational, and often extends beyond the boundaries of a single product.

That imbalance has created what many practitioners describe as an execution gap. Organizations know where many of their risks are, but lack the time and staffing to address them consistently.

“Security teams don’t have a visibility problem anymore; they have an execution problem,” said Barak Klinghofer, co-founder and CEO of Reclaim Security. “The industry has spent years perfecting the process of identifying risk. The next challenge is helping organizations reduce it without adding more manual work or creating unnecessary disruption.”

Reclaim Security’s platform reflects that philosophy. Rather than generating another queue of alerts, it focuses on automating business-aware remediation while keeping security teams in control of every action. The goal is not to replace administrators, but to eliminate repetitive work that prevents organizations from addressing known risks quickly.

A broader shift is taking shape

The emphasis on remediation is not unique to Reclaim Security. Across the industry, buyers are increasingly asking a different question when evaluating security platforms: Does this technology actually reduce our risk, or does it simply measure it?

That change reflects the realities facing enterprise security teams. Identity environments continue to expand, cloud infrastructure grows more complex, and experienced security professionals remain in short supply. Under those conditions, another dashboard often provides diminishing returns. Organizations are beginning to prioritize technologies that help close the gap between identifying a risk and resolving it.

Reclaim Security argues that automation will play a central role in that transition, provided it remains transparent and allows human oversight. Instead of replacing security practitioners, the company sees AI as a way to remove repetitive operational work so experts can focus on higher-value decisions.

Measuring success differently

If the past decade of cybersecurity was defined by how effectively organizations could discover threats, the next may be defined by how efficiently they eliminate them. That represents a significant shift in how security investments are evaluated.

Finding another thousand vulnerabilities rarely improves an organization’s security posture on its own. Reducing the number of unresolved risks does. Companies like Reclaim Security are betting that this evolution from visibility to remediation will shape the next chapter of cybersecurity, changing not only how products are built, but also how success is measured.