{"id":108805,"date":"2025-04-02T15:51:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T07:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/version-2.com\/?p=108805"},"modified":"2025-03-31T15:57:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T07:57:24","slug":"runzero-ushers-in-a-new-era-of-exposure-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/version-2.com\/en\/2025\/04\/runzero-ushers-in-a-new-era-of-exposure-management\/","title":{"rendered":"runZero Ushers in a New Era of Exposure Management"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Expanded platform offers new approach to detecting and prioritizing risk, starting with comprehensive visibility across the total attack surface<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>


AUSTIN, TEXAS \u2014 March 26, 2025<\/strong> \u2014 <\/strong>runZero today established itself at the vanguard of a new era of exposure management, releasing new product capabilities, welcoming executive leadership with deep industry expertise, and gaining channel momentum.<\/p>

runZero\u2019s expanded platform<\/a> offers a new approach to effectively manage the risk lifecycle, enabling security teams to find, prioritize, and remediate broad classes of exposures across internal and external attack surfaces, including those that evade traditional vulnerability and external attack surface management solutions. As a single source of truth for exposure management, runZero is the most effective and efficient way for organizations to proactively minimize risk across their total attack surface, including internal, external, IT, OT, IoT, mobile, and cloud environments.<\/p>

\u201cOur industry needs a paradigm shift if we\u2019re going to successfully secure today\u2019s complex attack surfaces. Legacy approaches are fundamentally flawed, starting with incomplete knowledge of the attack surface itself and inadequate exposure detection capabilities,\u201d said HD Moore, founder and CEO of runZero. \u201cOur goal is to help security teams get better outcomes, which means detecting and prioritizing the exposures that are most likely to be exploited, not flooding them with irrelevant alerts. runZero started by delivering comprehensive discovery across internal and external attack surfaces and is now leveraging novel techniques to uncover high-risk exposures that other solutions simply can\u2019t detect.\u201d<\/p>

Overcoming persistent problems<\/strong><\/h2>

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) are the lingua franca of cybersecurity, having become synonymous with exposure \u2014 but not all vulnerabilities have CVEs. Serious misconfigurations, such as exposed databases, broken network segmentation, and unintentional exposure of management servers, are frequently the source of breaches, but rarely get the focus they deserve. Instead, organizations suffer through Sisyphean prioritization tasks that consume resources without reducing the likelihood of an incident.<\/p>

Current approaches to vulnerability management only uncover a small subset of vulnerabilities, with significant delays, and only reliably identify these exposures under specific and optimal conditions. Models that focus on known-exploited CVEs, a tiny fraction of the total (0.05% according to the CISA KEV), are still leaving gaps measured in weeks that criminals exploit for financial gain.<\/p>

Traditional tools also fail to discover and defend unknown and unmanageable assets, providing insurmountable challenges throughout the exposure detection and prioritization cycle. Starting with just a fraction of the attack surface makes it impossible to detect the full scope of exposures and prioritize accordingly.<\/p>

As a result, organizations are spending enormous resources on remediation efforts while still missing the attack paths most likely to be exploited in their environment. Overcoming these persistent, decades-old problems requires a new approach.<\/p>

A new approach to exposure management<\/strong><\/h2>

Leveraging innovative technology and proprietary discovery techniques, runZero provides organizations the most complete and accurate visibility across their total attack surface, including unknown and unmanageable assets. On average, runZero enterprise customers report finding 25% more assets than they were previously aware of, with some environments yielding 10x more assets than security teams expected, radically expanding their view of their attack surfaces and the exposures within. These previously unknown assets are often those at the most risk, as they have not been properly tracked by either IT or security teams.<\/p>

Starting with a foundation of comprehensive visibility enables runZero to provide full-spectrum exposure detection across internal and external attack surfaces. Advanced fingerprinting methodologies build detailed, accurate profiles of each asset in the environment using a library of almost 1,000 attributes. This unmatched depth of data enables the platform to identify much broader classes of exposures going well beyond CVEs to identify risks that evade traditional vulnerability and external attack surface management solutions.<\/p>

\u201cWhile runZero started out in the most complex side of ASM, namely the CAASM market, it is already expanding into EASM and broader exposure management use cases, which is a salutary development,\u201d said Rik Turner, Senior Principal Analyst at Omdia. \u201cIts CAASM background provides the most solid foundation for such a move, giving it valuable insights into a customer\u2019s asset estate and making it a strong candidate for any ASM or exposure management project within an organization.”<\/p>

With runZero, teams can uncover elusive exposures such as network segmentation failures, externally-exposed internal assets, missing security controls, insecure encryption keys, end-of-life software, prohibited devices, and misconfigured OT and IoT devices. runZero also enables organizations to quickly respond to zero days without rescanning by automatically querying data already captured in the fingerprinting process to immediately surface at-risk assets, including unmanaged devices.<\/p>

In contrast to other solutions that flood teams with alerts, runZero employs data-driven risk prioritization, highlighting the most urgent exposures by leveraging business context, device impact, and meaningful attributes. With highly intuitive risk findings, security teams can focus on critical threats while understanding their broader implications across the attack surface.<\/p>

Today\u2019s release introduces new risk findings and dashboards, providing a novel paradigm for organizing, addressing, and tracking exposures over time. These findings address the most critical areas of risk, including:<\/p>