The Challenge of Managing Complex Vulnerabilities in a Complex Environment
In today’s digital environment, organizations are connecting more assets, supporting remote workforces, and engaging customers online — all of which rapidly expands their attack surface. Traditional vulnerability management approaches struggle to keep up, offering fractured visibility and siloed data that fails to truly assess how vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and identity interrelate to create potential attack paths.
According to Tenable’s recent survey results, while 61% of organizations report being effective at identifying threats, only 9% feel confident in their remediation capabilities. One-third admit to conducting only infrequent vulnerability scans, or none at all. As a result, many teams are stuck reacting to incidents rather than proactively preventing them, unable to manage risks across an increasingly complex web of IT, cloud, and identity assets. Without comprehensive, connected insight into how vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and identities interrelate, true risk remains hidden — and so does the path for attackers.
Unifying Risk Visibility Across Your Entire Attack Surface
Managing cyber risk today requires more than simply cataloging vulnerabilities — it demands a connected, risk-informed approach. Exposure management enables security teams to view their entire environment holistically, prioritize efforts based on real-world attack paths, and act decisively to prevent breaches.
Tenable One delivers this modern strategy through the world’s first AI-powered exposure management platform. It unifies visibility across IT, OT, IoT, cloud, web apps, containers, and identity systems, exposing unseen assets and mapping critical relationships that adversaries could exploit. By connecting vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and excessive permissions into a single risk view, organizations can focus on eliminating chokepoints that would otherwise enable lateral movement and major breaches. With advanced analytics, natural language queries, and prescriptive remediation guidance, Tenable One helps organizations anticipate threats and drive cyber resilience across the full attack surface.
5 steps to build your exposure management program
Access the security technology you have now.
Determine gaps in coverage or integration
Prioritise your efforts.
Understand the business value of your assets and prioritize remediation based on risk.
Communicate and take action.
Develop consistent, accurate communication practices. Can you answer the question, "How secure are we?"
Understand visibility in your attack surface.
Consider all aspects of the modern attack surface and be sure to look at it from an attackers perspective.
Measure your remediation processes.
Benchmark internally and externally and apply continuous improvement practices.
How Heighten can help
As a trusted Managed Security Services Provider and value-added reseller, we help organizations fully leverage Tenable One to achieve proactive exposure management. Our services include configuration of continuous scanning and asset detection, contextual risk prioritization, actionable remediation planning, and tracking remediation progress — including exception management.
By handling the critical tasks of asset discovery, risk validation, prioritization, and remediation planning, we significantly reduce the strain on internal teams. This allows organizations to focus their resources where they’re needed most, while maintaining clear visibility and control over their cyber risk landscape.
Beyond deployment and professional services, our managed vulnerability management offering ensures your organization maintains a dynamic, risk-driven view of your evolving attack surface. We empower your teams with the visibility, insights, and support needed to stay ahead of threats and make smarter cybersecurity decisions that align with your broader business goals.