Prioritize to Protect: RedSeal’s Methodology for Effective Threat Exposure Management

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In the fast-paced world of cybersecurity, the sheer volume of threat exposures can overwhelm even the most diligent security teams. Effective prioritization is not just a best practice; it’s essential for safeguarding your organization’s assets and ensuring a robust security posture.

The importance of prioritization

Prioritization in Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) goes beyond vulnerabilities and assessing CVSS scores or severity levels. RedSeal navigates the complexity by providing a comprehensive approach to prioritizing exposures based on the risk to the organization. By considering a multitude of internal, external, business, and technical factors, RedSeal focuses teams on high-impact, exploitable exposures that align with high-priority systems and assets, transforming how organizations manage their cybersecurity efforts.

How RedSeal enhances prioritization

At RedSeal, we understand that effective prioritization requires a nuanced approach. Our platform evaluates a wide array of factors to determine risk and prioritize exposures accurately. While traditional CTEM programs prioritize then validate threat exposures, RedSeal uniquely combines these steps—automatically validating all exposures before prioritizing them. After all, if an exposure isn’t actually exploitable, it shouldn’t be a priority. RedSeal evaluates all possible access—from north, south, east, and west—across the entire network to assess the viability of exploitation and measure the true impact (blast radius) of each exposure. Then, all possible consequences from direct and indirect (downstream) threats are considered. The platform calculates risk scores by combining vulnerability and business data with unmatched network context, ensuring exposures with greater business impact take higher priority.

RedSeal CTEM prioritization in action:

  1. Comprehensive risk assessment: RedSeal calculates risk scores by integrating data from security controls, asset criticality, and vulnerability assessments, along with network context. This approach ensures that no critical threat goes unnoticed.
  2. Network contextualization: Our unique capability to provide unmatched network context is a game-changer. By factoring visibility, exploitability, potential exploitation, and the likely impact of exposures into the prioritization process, RedSeal offers a complete picture of the true threat.
  3. Network digital twin: The concept of a network digital twin is crucial in our prioritization process. It allows us to visualize both direct attack paths and the indirect, downstream consequences of potential threats. This holistic view helps organizations understand the broader implications of vulnerabilities and focus on exposures that could have the greatest impact.
  4. Business impact focus: At the heart of our prioritization strategy is a commitment to business impact. Exposures with the potential for greater repercussions on the organization are given higher priority, aligning cybersecurity efforts with overarching business objectives.

In today’s complex security environment, effective prioritization of threat exposures is vital for successful Continuous Threat Exposure Management. RedSeal provides the tools necessary to assess risks comprehensively and focus on what truly matters. By considering a range of internal, external, business, and technical factors, we empower organizations to navigate their threat landscape with confidence and precision.

A partnership with RedSeal ensures that your CTEM efforts are strategically focused on high-impact exposures that protect your business and its future.

Read our blog on scoping, the first step in CTEM management and discovery, the second step in CTEM management.

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