The cybersecurity partnership between Acumen Cyber and AttackIQ marks a strategic step toward stronger cyber defence. The cybersecurity collaboration involves validating security controls continuously against cyber threats. Both companies will work together in order to increase resilience in their enterprise environments.
As cyber threats evolve rapidly, traditional security approaches are becoming less effective. Hence, continuous validation frameworks need to be developed. The latter allows the identification of crucial vulnerabilities as well as the evaluation of possible attack paths. Additionally, the new cybersecurity collaboration involves using Acumen Cyber’s engineering-driven cybersecurity operations alongside its partner’s CTEM solution.
“Cybersecurity teams are overwhelmed with findings, yet many organisations still struggle to understand where they are truly exposed,” said Carl Wright, Chief Commercial Officer at AttackIQ. “Threat Debt changes the conversation from managing lists of vulnerabilities to understanding and reducing accumulated adversary opportunity. Acumen Cyber’s engineering-led approach makes them an ideal partner to help customers operationalise CTEM in a way that continuously validates defences, prioritises what matters most, and proves a measurable reduction in attacker opportunity over time.”
Advancing Continuous Threat Exposure Management and Proactive Security
Moreover, organizations can test their preventive and detective controls for effectiveness by comparison with techniques used by adversaries. They can plot out attack paths and decrease vulnerabilities that might be exploited. Consequently, companies get better insight into their security posture. In addition, the platform correlates threat intelligence and vulnerabilities with actions. The platform also monitors how well security controls mitigate threats. Accordingly, companies can change from responding after attacks to being more proactive about their security efforts.
“Most organisations still operate security programs built around activity metrics instead of validated outcomes,” said Mark Robertson, CEO at Acumen Cyber. “The reality is that adversaries exploit paths, not isolated findings. Our partnership with AttackIQ allows us to help customers continuously identify where attacker opportunities exist, validate whether defensive controls actually work under real-world conditions, and systematically reduce Threat Debt before those paths can be exploited.”
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News Source: Businesswire.com
