From Vulnerability Management to Exposure Management
A good vulnerability management (VM) program can tell you which software vulnerabilities need attention and help get them fixed. As environments have expanded across cloud, identity, operational technology (OT), applications, and other systems, VM teams have gained access to much more information that can affect those decisions.
Technical severity does not always reflect the risk a vulnerability presents in a particular environment. A finding on an isolated asset may be less pressing than one that gives a threat actor a route toward a critical system, particularly when other weaknesses make that route easier to exploit.
Exposure management (EM) brings those connections into the assessment. It looks beyond individual vulnerabilities to the wider set of exposures that could give a threat actor access to important systems and data.
For VM leaders, moving toward EM expands the context used to make remediation decisions and brings more of the security organization into the...
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