Why exposure management is replacing vulnerability management
Brief
Vulnerability management isn’t failing because security teams lack visibility. Most organizations already have more findings than they can reasonably address. Yet despite all those findings, many CISOs still struggle to answer a deceptively simple question: Are we actually becoming harder to attack? That question sits at the center of a growing problem.
Security programs have become very good at finding issues, but finding issues and reducing risk are not the same thing. In many organizations, those two concepts have become interchangeable, which is exactly why traditional vulnerability management is beginning to break down. The underlying assumption behind vulnerability management is straightforward.
If you can identify vulnerabilities, prioritize them, and patch them, risk should decrease.