Relying on an endpoint-centric approach to exposure management can leave you with blind spots that increase risk. You need to see your environment like an attacker does.
Key takeaways:
- Long remediation cycles and difficulty prioritizing risk are significant challenges for security teams.
- Exposure management capabilities bolted onto existing security tools result in dashboard fatigue and manual processes that slow response time.
- Unified exposure management gives teams the context and intelligence they need and integrates into existing systems of record to speed remediation times.
How do you scale with the threat landscape? That’s one of the greatest challenges facing security organizations.
An attacker’s entry point can be a critical vulnerability on a public-facing server, a severe misconfiguration in the cloud or an overprivileged permission in an identity system. Threat actors only need to exploit a single misconfiguration or vulnerability to gain a toehold into an environment, where they quickly pivot to living off the land techniques, using legitimate tools to perform lateral movement and privilege escalation. They’re leveraging a broad attack surface that includes AI, cloud environments, web applications, APIs, identity systems, operational technology (OT) and IoT. And overwhelmed security teams are over-rotating on an “assumed breach” mentality.
To understand the scope of the challenge, consider this: From 1999 to 2019, there were 124,000 registered CVEs tracked by MITRE. From 2019 to 2024 that number nearly doubled to 240,000 and it’s currently at 300,000.
Security tool vendors with expertise in a specific area, such as endpoint detection and response (EDR), may offer add-on vulnerability management or exposure management services to their offerings. It may seem easy to add these capabilities onto an existing deployment. But relying on such offerings to manage a complex environment can result in blind spots that increase risk.
In order to scale with the threat landscape, security teams need to be
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