LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 30, 2026--
Klarvant, named by the UK Government among the partners expanding the Government Cyber Unit's Vulnerability Monitoring Service, today announced a significant expansion of Namespace Command, the platform it builds for governing an organisation's external digital estate.
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Since the platform went live in April, Klarvant has added a connected ontology that models an organisation's external estate as a single system rather than a list of assets, an automation layer that acts on changes rather than only reporting them, continuous CVE intelligence with exploitation context, and machine-to-machine access allowing customers' own AI systems to query the estate directly. An agent-to-agent implementation is now available in the Google Cloud agent marketplace.
The UK Government published on 2 July 2026 that it is working with partners including Detectify, Hardenize and Klarvant to expand how the Vulnerability Monitoring Service identifies DNS, configuration, email and web content issues. The service covers more than 6,000 public sector organisations, with more than 1,300 signed up for active scanning.
Klarvant's commercial clients operate in energy, aviation, telecommunications, banking and pharmaceuticals. More than 70 per cent of its enterprise clients are constituents of a leading national stock index. Together with central government, that places Klarvant's client base inside six of the thirteen sectors the UK designates as critical national infrastructure.
Namespace Command discovers an organisation's complete external digital footprint across nine surfaces without software installation, API keys or privileged access. It then models the estate as a single connected system, establishes accountable ownership for every asset and finding, orchestrates the workflows that resolve them, and produces continuous audit evidence against NIST CSF, ISO 27001, SOC 2, CIS Controls, HIPAA, GDPR and customer-defined frameworks. Organisations of this size are audited on whether a finding was closed and by whom, which is a harder question than how many assets they can list.
“Working at the scale of a national government changes what you build. You cannot ask thousands of organisations to install software, and governance that depends on a person reading a dashboard does not survive contact with an estate this size. So this year we moved from reporting to orchestration: the platform watches for change, routes it to whoever owns it, and lets our clients' own AI systems query the estate directly. Finding problems was never the hard part. Governing what you find is,” said Luis Novella, chief executive of Klarvant.
Klarvant is a global, remote-first company with its registered headquarters in London.
Notes to editors
Primary source for the UK Government engagement. The Vulnerability Monitoring Service expansion naming Klarvant was published by the UK Government at security.gov.uk on 2 July 2026 and updated on 14 July 2026. Klarvant has worked with the Government Cyber Unit since the company's early operations. The 6,000 and 1,300 figures describe the coverage of the Vulnerability Monitoring Service, not Klarvant's own client count.
On client confidentiality. Klarvant names clients only with their consent. Where a client is named on klarvant.com or in a Klarvant release, that client has agreed to be named. The UK Government engagement is named because the UK Government published it. Klarvant does not otherwise disclose the identity of its clients.
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About Klarvant
Klarvant is a digital governance intelligence company that protects the digital identities of high-reputation organisations. Our platform, Namespace Command, delivers orchestrated digital governance: it uncovers an organisation's complete digital footprint from day one, without installing software or requiring access to internal systems, connects it into one living model of the external ecosystem, and governs what it finds through accountable ownership and workflows you define. Klarvant's clients are G7 governments and multinational enterprises, most of them constituents of a leading national stock index. Govern your namespace.
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Luis Novella, CEO, Klarvant
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Fernando Tatis Jr. hit the first leadoff homer in Padres playoff history on the Cubs’ first pitch, Michael King took a no-hitter into the seventh inning and San Diego rolled to an 8-0 victory over Chicago in their NL Wild Card Series opener on Tuesday night.
Manny Machado also homered in the first inning and added an RBI double in the third during an emphatic opening statement by the 91-win Padres. Xander Bogaerts also homered off Cubs starter Matthew Boyd, and Jackson Merrill added a two-run single later.
San Diego provided more than enough support for King, who struck out eight over seven stellar innings while thoroughly throttling the majors' highest-scoring team. King set the tone by striking out probable NL MVP Pete Crow-Armstrong with the first three pitches.
“It gives me confidence knowing the team has confidence in me to pitch in these games,” King said. “But then when you have our superstars showing out like that in the bottom of the first, it makes it a lot easier.”
Nico Hoerner got the Cubs’ only hit off King with a one-out infield single in the seventh, but King racked up two more strikeouts to earn the last of several standing ovations from the raucous sellout crowd watching his third career playoff start.
“The crowd was awesome,” Chicago manager Craig Counsell said. “They had a lot to cheer about tonight, and we didn't give them anything to be quiet about.”
Game 2 is Wednesday night at Petco Park. The series winner faces the MLB-best Milwaukee Brewers in the best-of-five division series.
Chicago had just one hit before getting to Joe Musgrove, the Padres veteran making his first major league appearance since Oct. 2, 2024, in the ninth inning. The Cubs got two singles and a walk before Musgrove struck out pinch-hitter Michael Conforto to preserve the shutout in his return from Tommy John surgery.
The Padres dominated the opener of this rematch of last fall’s Wild Card Series, won by the Cubs in three tight games. San Diego scored more runs in the first five innings of this series opener than it did last year in all three games at Wrigley Field combined.
When asked if his postseason managerial debut could have gone any better, San Diego's Craig Stammen replied: “No, probably not."
“We couldn't write it up any better ... (but) it's just one game, and we've got a job to do to finish the series off," Stammen added. "The Cubs are a great team. They didn't play their best game tonight, but I guarantee they're going to play their best game tomorrow.”
San Diego finished this season with the majors’ sixth-best record, besting Chicago by two wins and setting franchise records with its third straight playoff berth and fifth straight winning record. The Padres hit the postseason on a 17-3 roll, and they’re still surging.
Boyd’s opening pitch was a changeup, and Tatis crushed it 405 feet to center in a blast reminiscent of his first-inning homer in Game 1 of San Diego’s 2024 NL Wild Card Series victory over Atlanta.
Moments later, Machado smashed another changeup out to left-center, setting off pandemonium at Petco with his franchise-record ninth postseason homer.
“Honestly, it was hard to stay locked in in the bottom of the first,” King said with a smile. “I love to celebrate my guys hitting homers, but obviously I have a job to do. Hard to stay dialed in on what I was doing because it was an absolutely electric atmosphere.”
Tatis walked in the third and scored from first on Machado’s double to the wall. Bogaerts connected in the fourth, lining a full-count changeup into the seats on the Western Metal Supply Co. building above left field.
“When those guys are leading the charge, we're a pretty tough team,” Stammen said.
San Diego loaded the bases in the fifth against reliever Javier Assad, and Merrill cracked a two-run single to center before Ty France scored on a passed ball.
King escaped the minor trouble he faced, picking up key strikeouts and throwing his sweeper superbly. Hoerner got Chicago’s hit on a grounder that Machado stopped with difficulty, but couldn’t transfer to his throwing hand cleanly enough to make a play.
Tatis scored his third run in the seventh when he singled, stole second and ran all the way home when the throw trickled into center. Tatis slid headfirst past the tag and came up screaming while Machado theatrically signaled him safe.
Nick Pivetta (3-2, 2.86 ERA) starts Game 2 for the Padres in his fifth game back from a near five-month absence with a right elbow injury. Kevin Gausman (4-2, 4.83) goes for the Cubs.
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Chicago Cubs second baseman Nico Hoerner (2) turns a double play on San Diego Padres center fielder Jackson Merrill (3) in the fourth inning of Game 1 of the National League Wild Card baseball playoff series Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Chicago Cubs pitcher Javier Assad (72) hands the ball to manager Craig Counsell as he is pulled in the fifth inning against the San Diego Padres in Game 1 of the National League Wild Card baseball playoff series Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
San Diego Padres right fielder Fernando Tatis Jr. celebrates his home run in the first inning of Game 1 of the National League Wild Card baseball playoff series against the Chicago Cubs Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
San Diego Padres pitcher Michael King delivers against the Chicago Cubs in the sixth inning of Game 1 of the National League Wild Card baseball playoff series Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
San Diego Padres right fielder Fernando Tatis Jr. and third baseman Manny Machado (13) celebrate their back-to-back home runs in the first inning of Game 1 of the National League Wild Card baseball playoff series against the Chicago Cubs Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
San Diego Padres Fernando Tatis Jr. reacts with third baseman Manny Machado (13) after scoring on a steal and an error by Chicago Cubs in the seventh inning of Game 1 of the National League Wild Card baseball playoff series Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
