Feature Spotlight: Exposure Tracker

At Zafran Security, we’re thrilled to announce the general availability of Exposure Tracker, a transformative feature within the Zafran Threat Exposure Management Platform. This exciting new capability directly addresses critical gaps facing many organizations: inadequate reporting, fragmented visibility, and inconsistent metrics. The Exposure Tracker feature is designed to not only provide enhanced visibility into your vulnerabilities but also offer unified metrics that give you a comprehensive view of risk exposure and remediation progress.

Beta testing phase with our design partners confirmed how Exposure Tracker creates value. Customers used, and continue to use, the feature to actively manage risk, measure progress over time, and demonstrate results to key stakeholders. From personalized segmentation to near-real-time tracking, the feedback from our customers has been overwhelmingly positive.

Feature Overview

Exposure Tracker enhances exposure management by providing a tailored method to monitor exposures linked with vulnerabilities, assets, and their associated compensating security defenses. This feature combines the ability to focus on a scoped set of exposures, track their severity over time, and monitor remediation and mitigation efforts on a daily basis. With unified metrics and reporting, Exposure Tracker provides an essential layer of transparency to your security efforts, enabling teams to measure effectiveness and demonstrate progress to leadership and stakeholders.

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The true value of Exposure Tracker lies in its ability to eliminate silos in reporting and visibility, which are common pain points in many organizations. By providing a clear and customizable view of risk exposure and remediation progress, teams can finally bridge the gap between tactical operational security efforts and strategic security objectives. Customers can now make informed decisions, prioritize actions, and showcase measurable improvements with the confidence that they are addressing the highest-impact exposures.

Customer Use Cases

During beta testing, our customers not only used Exposure Tracker to monitor exposures to various risks over time, but also created some use cases which we did not originally imagine.

1. Customize Exposure Scope: Whether focusing on high-profile exposures like Log4Shell, or assets with ineffective security controls configurations, teams can use Exposure Tracker to define their own scope. This helps prioritize risks that matter most to their unique environment and risk profile.
2. Risk Segmentation: By segmenting risks according to various criteria such as team, geography, or business unit, organizations can track exposures in a granular way. This segmentation enables teams to monitor specific assets or business units and measure their performance over time, helping to ensure that high-priority risks are being managed effectively.
3. Action-Oriented Remediation Tracking: Teams can use Exposure Tracker to monitor the progress of their remediation efforts. This feature allows users to create dedicated remediation-focused campaigns and track vulnerabilities and measure performance metrics like average exposure window and Mean Time to Remediate (MTTR).

Getting Started with Exposure Tracker

Getting started with Exposure Tracker is simple. Zafran customers can quickly create their own Exposure Tracker by defining conditions based on specific risk profiles, threat groups, or known vulnerabilities. Once set up, the Exposure Tracker provides near-real-time visibility into key metrics such as impacted asset counts, risk severity breakdown, and overtime remediation progress, empowering teams to take immediate action.

1. Navigate to the Vulnerability Findings Page
   Begin by going to the Vulnerability Findings page, where all your organization’s vulnerability findings are displayed.
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2. Apply Custom Filters

• Use the Add Filter button to specify criteria such as CVE IDs, impacted assets, security controls effectiveness, etc.
• Add or remove filters to narrow down the findings exactly as you need.

3. Click “New Exposure Tracker”

• Once satisfied with your filter criteria, locate the New Exposure Tracker button at the top of the table,
• Clicking this button creates an Exposure Tracker that reflects the currently applied filters.

4. Create a New Exposure Tracker

• Add a Title and Description: Provide a concise name and a brief overview. It is recommended to specify the tracker's scope and logic.
• Review Your Filters: Double-check the applied filters to ensure they match your intended criteria.
• Adjust if Needed: If any filters need modification, click Cancel, make your changes, and click on "New Exposure Tracker" to resume progress.
• Complete Creation: When satisfied, click Done to finalize your new Exposure Tracker.

Conclusion

Exposure Tracker is generally available now to Zafran customers. This capability is designed to solve one of the most persistent challenges in cybersecurity: the lack of clear, actionable visibility into evolving risks and remediation efforts. By customizing metrics and reporting, Zafran’s Exposure Tracker enables organizations to make more informed decisions, better manage continuous improvement, and demonstrate value to key stakeholders.

To learn more about Zafran or see our exposure management platform in action, click Get A Demo and we will connect you with an expert. 

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