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Security Validation and Exposure Management

Enable a More Proactive Security Posture

By Nir Loya Dahan, Vice President of Product, Cymulate

It’s good to know what threats are out there. It’s even better to know where your own vulnerabilities lie.
But in today’s rapidly evolving cybersecurity threat landscape, those two things aren’t enough. Modern
organizations need to know not just whether they have the right security solutions in place, but how they
stand up to the actual tactics attackers are using. Are they functioning as intended? Are they leaving
gaps that need to be accounted for? How—and in what order—should these exposures be addressed?

These are all critical questions for today’s organizations, and traditional vulnerability management
solutions can only provide partial answers. Fortunately, the emergence of exposure management and
security validation solutions have put new tools in the hands of security teams, allowing them to not only
identify where potential exposures exist, but continuously test them and evaluate their performance
against simulated attack activity. The result is a more comprehensive view of the organization’s security
posture, able to clearly illustrate which vulnerabilities are covered by compensating controls and where
the most dangerous attack paths exist. Thanks to exposure management, organizations can now

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