Breaking the Cycle of Technical Debt with Agentic Exposure Management

In this video, Rob Babb, Exposure Management Strategist at Seemplicity, shares key insights from a presentation at ISACA Atlanta’s Geek Week regarding breaking the cycle of technical debt through agentic exposure management. The discussion focuses on why standard scoring methods like CVSS are often insufficient on their own for effective vulnerability prioritization.12

Key Topics Covered:

• The Limitations of CVSS: While it is a standard base scoring method, CVSS alone does not incorporate real-world threat intelligence.3
• Introducing EPSS: The Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS) acts as a lagging indicator of exploit activity seen in the wild over the previous 30 days.4
• How EPSS Works: It provides both a decimal score and a percentile score, utilizing data from sensor networks and honeypots to identify vulnerabilities with actual exploit activity.5
• Better Prioritization: By combining EPSS with CVSS, security teams can more accurately target vulnerabilities that pose a real risk, rather than just chasing high CVSS scores that may lack active exploits.6
• Impact on Technical Debt: Using these tools helps IT and development teams prioritize their remediation efforts effectively, reducing unnecessary workloads.

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