Vulnerability Management Lacks the Proof of Exploitability
Security teams are overwhelmed by the large number of potential exposures found in their organizations, so they look for ways to prioritize and reduce their patching workloads. Traditional vulnerability prioritization strategies usually hinge on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) and may include threat intelligence regarding known exploits, active campaigns and industry threats. However, these factors often lack the insights to evaluate exposures in the context of an organization’s distinct environment. Organizations require vital information that standard vulnerability management programs and tools don’t provide.
Start Prioritizing with the Context of Security Control Effectiveness and Business Impact
With market-leading breach and attack simulation, Cymulate validates control effectiveness with production-safe attack techniques that target the vulnerability and potential exposure. The Cymulate platform also includes continuous automated red teaming to map attack paths and visualize impact of a successful attack.
Cymulate prioritization also considers the business context of effected assets, systems and applications. Cymulate groups assets to one or more pre-defined “business contexts,” groups of assets that share similar impacts on the organization’s risk. These contexts include business units, product lines, subsidiaries, regions or other relevant groupings to evaluate risk more granularly.
Cymulate helps us prioritize exploitable vulnerabilities in our environment. By integrating with our vulnerability management products and running Cymulate assessments, we can easily discover which vulnerabilities are an actual threat to our organization.
– Kevin Roberts, Information Security Analyst, Nedbank
Exposure Prioritization Solution Brief
Learn how Cymulate validates control effectiveness with production-safe attack techniques that target the vulnerability and potential exposure.
When prioritizing exposures, the Cymulate platform also applies the latest threat intelligence. Daily threat feeds update Cymulate with the active threat campaigns, targeted industries and effected geographies – all mapped back to the exposure and attack techniques validated with breach and attack simulation. This Cymulate analysis for exposure prioritization also includes updates from the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog maintained by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to elevate the severity based on exploits in the wild.
Streamline and Prioritize Mitigation Tasks with a Remediation Plan
The Cymulate platform correlates threat exposures with security control effectiveness, threat intel and business context to prioritize true exposures and produce detailed remediation plans that include:
Explanation and evidence of the exposure
Effected assets and their business context
Guidance for remediation, such as configuration updates for infrastructure, clouds, applications and controls
Integration with ticketing systems to mobilize action
Custom mitigation rules to add threat detection in endpoint and SIEM
Integrate with Vulnerability Management
We integrated Cymulate with our vulnerability management to validate each vulnerability and understand if there are compensating controls in place protecting us. It helps us focus and prioritize the high-risk vulnerabilities that are exploitable in our environment.
– Raphael Ferreira, Cybersecurity Manager, Banco PAN
