Each Monday, the Tenable Exposure Management Academy provides the practical, real-world guidance you need to shift from vulnerability management to exposure management. In this Exposure Management Academy FAQ, we help CISOs understand exposure management, look at how advanced you might be and outline how to structure a program. You can read the entire Exposure Management Academy series here.
Since we started the Exposure Management Academy in March, we’ve received lots of questions. To provide answers, we launched an exposure management FAQ series in April and we’re following that with a few more questions and answers.
Do you have a question about exposure management? If so, fill out the form at the bottom of this page and we’ll address your question in a future post.
I’m a CISO. What should I know about exposure management?
This is a fundamental question we hear from many CISOs. In short, exposure management offers CISOs a unified view of the most significant cyber exposures across their organization’s entire attack surface.
Toxic combinations of preventable weaknesses — including vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and excessive permissions — can lead to substantial business exposure if they’re exploited. To effectively practice exposure management, you need to be able to identify these toxic risk combinations that create attack paths leading to your most valuable assets or administrative privileges.
Implementing an exposure management program can help you streamline prioritization and remediation efforts, making it easier for your security teams to be proactive about reducing your exploitable attack surface.
Exposure management helps unify the data produced by disparate proactive security functions, including vulnerability management, we
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