Closing the Exposure Window: A Proactive Approach to Risk Reduction with Armis Centrix™

Security teams face immense pressure, overwhelmed by countless security tool alerts and a rising number of CVEs, all while managing a complex attack surface with limited resources. They lack actual risk context for specific environments and early warnings about the vulnerabilities that matter. Their limited resources are consumed triaging alerts and vulnerabilities from various sources like vulnerable assets, cloud, code, and AppSec, without considering asset security risk, asset profiles, or business impact. This situation is exacerbated by the challenge of bridging the gap between teams identifying risk and those fixing it. The top ten vulnerabilities targeted in 2023 were discovered before 2020¹, highlighting the inefficacy of current vulnerability management (VM) methods in mitigating known exposure risks.

A new approach is required—one that consolidates intelligence on the vulnerabilities that matter most with internal context to prioritize critical security findings and assets. This involves integrating vulnerability visibility, asset contextualization, and early warning intelligence to automate prioritization of urgent risks to the organization and streamline the remediation lifecycle.

While the industry has both predictive and evidence-based benchmarks for vulnerabilities, they are still lacking—60% of all compromises are from known vulnerabilities². What is needed is vulnerability intelligence that provides more readily available information on what threat actors are doing and allows for a more proactive, ‘left of boom’ approach.

Shifting from reactive firefighting to a systematic, automated risk-reduction process is key. The consolidated approach allows teams to understand which vulnerabilities truly matter, which assets in their environment are exposed, how critical those assets are within a business or compliance context, and who is responsible for remediation steps. Consolidating, de-duplicating, and contextualizing findings, along with asset profiles, attributes, and custom risk weightings, allows teams to prioritize based on the risks in their environment and what truly matters to their organization. With centralized integration to ticketing workflows and automated assignment of remediation tasks, security teams can swiftly operationalize remediation and monitor progress to close the exposure window.

A Proactive Approach to Shutting the Exposure Window with Armis Centrix™

Armis Centrix™ for VIPR Pro – Prioritization and Remediation and Armis Centrix™ for Early Warning empower security teams to stop attacks before they happen. By combining early warnings of the vulnerabilities that matter with the context of all critical security findings and asset context, teams can focus resources on the highest-priority risks and reduce the exposure window for what may impact the business most.

Benefits of a Consolidated Platform for Enabling Proactive Risk Reduction

With Armis Centrix™ for VIPR Pro and Armis Centrix™ for Early Warning, security teams can:

• Save Time – Early warnings give teams more time to address vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild or about to be weaponized.
• Enhance Protection – Teams can quickly identify which assets are at risk and prioritize remediation efforts based on asset criticality.
• Improve Remediation: Automate the remediation lifecycle, including ownership assignment, bidirectional ticketing integration, bulk ticketing, and centralized monitoring.

 
Cybersecurity is constantly evolving. By leveraging Armis Centrix™, organizations can focus on real, immediate risks and avoid unnecessary fire drills. This integrated approach improves efficiency, reduces risk, and strengthens security. Ready to transform your strategy? Request a demo today.

¹ Cisco
² 2023 Ponemon Report