Why Klarvant Namespace Command
Why organisations choose Klarvant.
A fundamentally different approach to digital governance: it removes the deployment friction, it covers the whole process rather than one slice of it, and it now closes the loop with action, so the pairing is discovery, governance, and action, not discovery alone. Here is how Namespace Command compares to the usual alternatives.
Attack surface management shows you what is exposed. Namespace Governance adds named, re-verified owners, validation against your own policies, and continuously collected evidence of both.
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| Capability | Namespace Command™ | External Attack Surface Management | Traditional GRC | Point solutions | Third-party risk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Process coverage | End to end: discovery through continuous compliance | External discovery and exposure reporting | Partial, with manual steps | A single step | Discovery and scoring only |
| Discovery method | Zero-integration: no agents, API keys, or credentials | External and often domain-seeded in newer tools | Questionnaires and spreadsheets | Agents, scanners, or APIs required | External scanning and vendor questionnaires |
| Asset coverage | Nine discovery surfaces across the external estate | External assets: DNS, certificates, IP addresses, web | Four to five asset types | Deep in one domain | External assets only |
| Digital twin | Dependency graph with blast-radius impact simulation | Inventory and attack-path views; estate dependency simulation not typical | Static reports and spreadsheets | Basic inventory views | Scorecard views |
| AI analysis | 13 specialist AI areas plus the personal advisor, Nora | Risk scoring and prioritisation | Manual analysis | Basic ML risk scoring | Automated scoring |
| Risk model | A to F posture across seven categories (DNS, TLS, Email, Web, Network, Accountability, Defensive), mapped to root causes | Vulnerability severity and exposure ratings | Compliance-based scoring | Single-dimension focus | Vendor-risk scoring |
| Verified accountability | Named owners on every zone, domain, vendor and service, email-confirmed and re-verified every six months | Ownership attribution for routing fixes in some tools; no named, re-verified owners | Attested at process level | Owner assignment within one layer in some tools | Not included |
| Policy validation | Controls evaluated against your own policies, framework-agnostic engine | Vendor severity taxonomy or named-framework mapping; not your own policies | Attestation questionnaires | Baseline policies within one layer; not your own policies | Not included |
| Audit-ready evidence | Continuously collected, exportable, drift-tracked | Exposure and test reports, some now labelled audit-ready; not evidence of ownership or policy | Assembled at audit time | Compliance reporting within one layer | Scorecard exports and vendor-attested assessment evidence |
| Orchestrated action | No-code Apps carry out your standing instructions through named owners (intelligence feed, in-app, email, Slack, Jira), with every action in an audit ledger | Alerts, ticket integrations and, in some tools, agentic remediation | Workflow builders on process, not the estate | Alerting only | Alerting, workflows and AI agents for vendor assessment |
| Remediation | Prioritised remediation queues and root-cause fixes, with Apps carrying out your standing instructions on findings from inside the platform | Recommendations; some add exploit validation and mitigation SLAs | Manual workflows | Domain-specific fixes | Recommendations only |
| Time to value | From day 1 | Hours to days for first discovery | 3 to 6 months | 4 to 8 weeks | 1 to 2 weeks |
| M&A due diligence | A target's external estate, no access required | External-only view of a target | Requires target cooperation | Requires target credentials | Good for vendor assessment |
| Deployment | Submit domains, nothing to install | Zero-integration in newer tools; agent-based in older | Complex implementation project | Agent rollout across infrastructure | Minimal setup |
See the difference on your own estate.
We run zero-integration discovery against your namespace, with results from day 1.