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| Source |  AlienVault Lab Blog |
|---|---|
| Identifiant | 8647365 |
| Date de publication | 2025-02-07 07:00:00 (vue: 2025-02-07 07:08:02) |
| Titre | A Rose by Any Other Name: Exposure Management, a Category that Evolved from Traditional Vulnerability Management |
| Texte | As organizations increase their reliance on cloud services, remote work tools, IoT devices and smart infrastructures, and the use of third-party vendors, their exposure to cyber threats increases. Traditional approaches to vulnerability management are unable to keep up with rapidly changing business needs and an expanding attack surface. While scanning and patching known vulnerabilities remains critical, today’s complex threat landscape demands a more comprehensive strategy. Exposures encompass the total attack surface and all potential security gaps across an organization’s entire digital infrastructure. Examples include known vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and uncovered weaknesses. These differ from vulnerabilities, which are specific weaknesses or flaws in a system that could be exploited. Security leaders should consider adopting a holistic exposure management program to address both known and unknown exposures. First let’s understand what exposure management is. Exposure Management represents a comprehensive approach that looks at an organization’s entire attack surface and potential security risks across all their digital assets, both internally and externally. It goes beyond identifying and remediating vulnerabilities by providing a much wider view of an organization’s security posture. This approach enables businesses to understand the full breadth of their attack surface and exposures, and prioritize actions based on potential impact. The evolution from vulnerability management to exposure management is becoming increasingly critical, according to Gartner. In their 2024 report, “How to Grow Vulnerability Management into Exposure Management," Gartner emphasizes that exposure management is more than just tools - it’s a comprehensive methodology that integrates people, processes, and technologies to effectively evaluate and assess exposures across both digital and physical assets. Gartner also highlights how this approach enhances and contextualizes security initiatives by providing data-driven insights into which assets, configurations, and vulnerabilities pose the greatest business risk. This allows security teams to effectively prioritize and allocate resources towards the most impactful remediations, tailored to their specific needs, industry threats, and business priorities. This approach strengthens key capabilities such as threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR), and cyber risk management. How Has Exposure Management Evolved from Traditional Vulnerability Management? Vulnerability management has been a staple of security programs for decades. It’s long been considered a requirement for “good cyber hygiene.” However, many organizations still struggle with properly managing the large volume of vulnerabilities in their environment, including prioritizing mitigation or remediation of the vulnerabilities that pose the greatest risk. Welcome “exposure management.” While vulnerability management focuses primarily on identifying and patching known vulnerabilities, exposure management has evolved to unify multiple security disciplines (including asset configuration, and patch management) into a comprehensive view of an organization’s attack surface – enabling teams to better identify, and prioritize critical exposures, particularly those actively exploited in the wild. Vulnerability management is a critical subset of exposure management, focusing on the detection and correction of security weaknesses. Vulnerability management alone can’t address the full spectrum of security risks organizations face today, particularly with the increasing complexity brought by digital transformation. Key Functions of Vulnerability Management vs. Exposure Management |
| Notes | ★★★ |
| Envoyé | Oui |
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