Getting Exposure Management Right: Insights from 500 CISOs

Results from Pentera’s 4th Pentesting report, which surveyed around 500 CISOs globally, show that while Exposure Management practices are maturing, there are still some gaps the market is yet to address. The modern attack surface is sprawling, dynamic, distributed, and dangerously opaque. As enterprises expand into cloud-native or hybrid architectures, deploy APIs by the thousands, and integrate IoT and OT devices into core operations, the surface area for cyber threats grows both in size and complexity. Today, the average enterprise manages 75 security tools, and nearly half of CISOs report continued growth in their security stacks year over year. This complexity isn’t deterring attackers. It enables them. Threat actors operate opportunistically. No surface is safe because attackers are driven to exploit whatever is exposed; they’re ultimately motivated to target surfaces that are relatively weaker than the next. For security leaders, this means it’s not a question of how to cover m ... Read full article.