SAFE Acquires Balbix – Fact Sheet

Who, what, why behind the ultimate Agentic-AI-powered cyber risk platform

SAFE CEO, Co-Founder Saket Modi and Balbix CEO, Founder Gaurav Banga

The News

SAFE has acquired Balbix, creating the ultimate AI-native platform for unified cyber risk and exposure management. 

Read the press release

What’s the Fit Between SAFE and Balbix?

Each is a category leader with strengths that complement the other, Balbix in CTEM, SAFE in CRQ.

Balbix, named a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Exposure Assessment Platforms, is known for its AI-native approach to CTEM (continuous threat exposure management) automating exposure discovery, assessing exploitability, and delivering deep data context and validation. 

SAFE, named the category leader in Cyber Risk Quantification (CRQ) by Forrester Research, has pioneered the use of specialized AI agents to power continuous, defensible decision-making across traditional cyber, AI and third-party risk.

What Problem Does SAFE + Balbix Solve?

Cybersecurity has long suffered from a split brain:

• Security Operations teams manage vulnerabilities, exposures, and controls.

• Risk & GRC teams manage enterprise risk and board reporting.

These functions work in different tools, with different data, metrics, processes and priorities. The result has often been unfocused investment in security, handing threat actors a target-rich environment. 

SAFE + Balbix unifies these functions in a single platform under the SAFE banner so every exposure can be traced to business impact, and every board or senior management decision aligns with real technical risk.

What’s Unique about the Platform?

No product has been able to link technical vulnerabilities to strategic business risk. We unify CTEM, CRQ and TPRM in one holistic cyber risk management platform, connected with AI. We are the only vendor that operates across all key layers:

• Attack surface
• Exposure
• Control effectiveness
• Risk quantification
• Prioritization
• Remediation

The unified platform delivers:

• A single, real-time view of exposures, controls and business risk
• Continuous measurement and intelligent prioritization
• Unified workflows across CRQ, CTEM and TPRM
• Decision intelligence for CISOs, security, risk and business leaders
• A modern, Agentic AI platform built for scale

How Does This Make My Job in Risk or Security Better?

This integration signals a new era, transforming CISOs and other technical leaders into business leaders, armed with real-time visibility of their entire risk landscape online or through the SAFE X Mobile App. For the first time, cybersecurity programs can be framed by ROI at planning – and monitored every day as risk is burned down. The result: Leading CISOs use SAFE to provide not just risk management but wide-ranging Decision Intelligence to the business. 

A Shared Vision of the Future

SAFE Co-founder and CEO Saket Modi said it best in a LinkedIn post: “SAFE has been building toward a bold goal: CyberAGI, a comprehensive system of intelligence that can predict and remediate attacks before they occur. To achieve that, we’ve been laying the foundational building blocks across CRQ, TPRM and CTEM. With Balbix joining the SAFE family, that vision accelerates dramatically.”

Learn more about SAFE acquiring Balbix – read the press release.