A Guide to Threat Exposure Management for Enterprises

For years, security has been an inside-out job. We scan our own systems, find our own flaws, and create our own to-do lists. But what if we flipped the script and looked at our organization from the outside-in? This is the core idea behind Threat Exposure Management. It’s a continuous process tha...

What is CTEM? Your Guide to Reducing Cyber Risk

Trying to explain security priorities to your board using CVSS scores is a tough sell. A long list of technical flaws doesn't translate to business impact, making it difficult to justify budgets and get buy-in for critical initiatives. Security leaders need a better way to frame the conversation...

Beyond CVSS: Critical CVE Vulnerabilities Analysis

Attackers don't care about your CVSS scores. They care about finding a path into your network. That path might not be a single, glaring "critical" vulnerability. Often, it’s a chain of lower-severity weaknesses on overlooked assets that, when combined, give them the keys to the kingdom. This is w...

Bi-Level Game-Theoretic Planning of Cyber Deception for Cognitive Arbitrage

Cognitive vulnerabilities shape human decision-making and arise primarily from two sources: 1 cognitive capabilities, which include disparities in knowledge, education, expertise, or access to information, and 2 cognitive biases, such as rational inattention, confirmation bias, and base rate...

CISA and Partners Release Asset Inventory Guidance for Operational Technology Owners and Operators

CISA, along with the National Security Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Environmental Protection Agency, and several international partners, released comprehensive guidance to help operational technology OT owners and operators across all critical infrastructure sectors create and...

6 Lessons Learned: Focusing Security Where Business Value Lives

The Evolution of Exposure Management Most security teams have a good sense of what's critical in their environment. What's harder to pin down is what's business-critical. These are the assets that support the processes the business can't function without. They're not always the loudest or most...

Automatic Selection of Protections to Mitigate Risks against Software Applications

This paper introduces a novel approach for the automated selection of software protections to mitigate MATE risks against critical assets within software applications. We formalize the key elements involved in protection decision-making - including code artifacts, assets, security requirements,...

Discover how automatic attack disruption protects critical assets while ensuring business continuity

Traditional security solutions often operate in a one-size-fits-all alert model that treats every detection equally, regardless of how important the asset is. But not all assets are equal. Critical assets are systems governing access, identity, or sensitive data. They are essential to an...

MeetMe 安全漏洞

MeetMe is a dating software from MeetMe, Inc. A security vulnerability exists in versions prior to MeetMe 2024-09, which stems from a call forwarding configuration module credential disclosure that could allow access to critical assets via configuration files...

Protect Your Critical Assets with Akamai Guardicore DNS Firewall

Enhance your network security and protect servers, workloads, and IoT devices with Akamai Guardicore DNS Firewall...

How to Get Going with CTEM When You Don't Know Where to Start

Continuous Threat Exposure Management CTEM is a strategic framework that helps organizations continuously assess and manage cyber risk. It breaks down the complex task of managing security threats into five distinct stages: Scoping, Discovery, Prioritization, Validation, and Mobilization. Each of...

4-Step Approach to Mapping and Securing Your Organization's Most Critical Assets

You're probably familiar with the term "critical assets". These are the technology assets within your company's IT infrastructure that are essential to the functioning of your organization. If anything happens to these assets, such as application servers, databases, or privileged identities, the...

New XM Cyber Research: 80% of Exposures from Misconfigurations, Less Than 1% from CVEs

A new report from XM Cyber has found – among other insights - a dramatic gap between where most organizations focus their security efforts, and where the most serious threats actually reside. The new report, Navigating the Paths of Risk: The State of Exposure Management in 2024, is based on...

Why Now? The Rise of Attack Surface Management

The term "attack surface management" ASM went from unknown to ubiquitous in the cybersecurity space over the past few years. Gartner and Forrester have both highlighted the importance of ASM recently, multiple solution providers have emerged in the space, and investment and acquisition activity...

6 Steps to Effectively Threat Hunting: Safeguard Critical Assets and Fight Cybercrime

Finding threat actors before they find you is key to beefing up your cyber defenses. How to do that efficiently and effectively is no small task – but with a small investment of time, you can master threat hunting and save your organization millions of dollars. Consider this staggering statistic...

Introducing Guardicore Threat Intelligence Firewall

Guardicore’s Threat Intelligence Firewall blocks connections to malicious IPs, limiting security attack surface before reaching critical assets...

CISA Launches “Cyber Essentials” for Small Businesses and Small SLTT Governments

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has launched Cyber Essentials, an effort to assist small organizations in understanding and addressing cybersecurity risks. Developed in partnership with small businesses and small state, local, tribal, and territorial SLTT governments,...

Creating a Cyber Panic Room to Fight Off Invasions

Genghis Khan was a mastermind. A terrifyingly brilliant military strategist who altered the course of world history. He used fear to paralyze his enemies. “In one apocryphal account circulated to create anxiety among the enemy, the Mongols supposedly promised to retreat from a besieged city if th...

NCCIC Webinar Series on Russian Government Cyber Activity

NCCIC is holding a webinar on Russian government cyber activity against critical infrastructure as detailed in NCCIC Alert TA18-074A today from 1–2:30 p.m. ET. The webinar will feature NCCIC subject matter experts discussing recent cybersecurity incidents, mitigation techniques, and resources tha...

How Can We Win a Cyberwar?

Cyberwar is no longer an urban legend. From Estonia to Georgia to Israel, cyberwar has become a regular part of geopolitical struggles around the globe, and it promises to become a growing factor in future international conflicts. Even skeptics have to admit that the economics behind cyber warfar...