Organizations Struggle to Prioritize Known Cyber Risks, Leaving Gaps in Attack‑Surface Visibility
What Happened — A new Filigran “State of Threat Management” report shows that 93 % of organizations cannot maintain an accurate, up‑to‑date view of their attack surface, and only 41 % have a consolidated view of cyber‑risk exposure. Security teams are forced to juggle dozens of feeds and tools, resulting in fragmented data, manual prioritization, and delayed remediation.
Why It Matters for Compliance & Audit Readiness
- SOC 2 requires continuous monitoring of security controls and evidence that risk is being identified, prioritized, and mitigated in a timely manner. Disconnected tools break the audit trail.
- Without a unified risk view, organizations cannot reliably map identified exposures to the relevant Trust Services Criteria, making it difficult to demonstrate due diligence during an audit.
- Verisq’s Control Mapping capability automates the correlation of asset, vulnerability, and threat‑intel data, delivering continuous, audit‑ready evidence of risk‑reduction activities.
Who Is Affected — Enterprises across all sectors that manage cloud, on‑prem, and third‑party environments – notably technology/SaaS providers, financial services firms, and healthcare organizations.
Recommended Actions
- Consolidate all asset, vulnerability, and threat‑intel feeds into a single risk‑management platform.
- Map each identified exposure to the corresponding SOC 2 control (e.g., CC6.1 – Risk Management) and capture remediation evidence automatically.
- Implement continuous validation workflows that prioritize risks based on exploitability and business impact.
Source: Help Net Security – Organizations struggle to prioritize known cyber risks
Technical Notes
- Data sources include cloud‑infrastructure inventories, on‑prem configuration scans, third‑party service inventories, vulnerability scanners, threat‑intel feeds, and attack‑surface‑management platforms.
- The primary challenge is the manual stitching of these feeds; no specific CVE or exploit is cited.
Source: same as above