Embracing Continuous Threat Exposure Management: Praetorian Leads the Charge

To keep up with today’s ever-changing cyber threat landscape, organizations must continually adapt to new risks. Emerging threats must be identified, defenses tested, and vulnerabilities addressed before they are exploited. This methodology, known as continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) requires a proactive rather than reactive approach to cybersecurity.

Praetorian is a offensive cyber security company that helps the world’s best organizations design, implement, and maintain effective CTEM processes. The Chariot cybersecurity platform offers organizations a comprehensive and cost-effective solution for strengthening continuous, impactful, and proactive cybersecurity.

“A reactive approach to cybersecurity significantly increases the risk of significant and irreparable damage,” warns Justin CopelandDirector of Product Marketing for Praetorian. “Organizations that wait for threats to materialize expose themselves to data breaches, financial loss, reputational damage, and legal liabilities.”

Chariot’s capabilities enable organizations to go on the offensive and stay several steps ahead of malicious actors by continuously identifying and addressing exploitable risks within their systems.

“Today’s threat landscape is evolving so quickly that traditional vulnerability management tools and approaches can’t keep up,” Copeland added. “These tools and approaches often fail to address emerging threats, leaving organizations vulnerable to new and sophisticated attacks that proactive, threat-based strategies could have mitigated or prevented.”

Providing a proactive defense in a comprehensive platform

Chariot brings together all the tools needed to embrace CTEM into one comprehensive cybersecurity platform. Instead of spending time and resources managing fragmented point solutions and costly, disconnected modules, Chariot users can leverage a single interface to quickly understand their risks and the action steps needed to stay secure.

“It’s an integrated process that streamlines processes and enables improved coordination across security tools and teams,” Copeland explains. “Chariot unifies the entire organizational cybersecurity program under one umbrella, improving visibility across the entire threat landscape by providing organizations with uniform and comprehensive guidance on their cybersecurity posture.”

With Chariot, users receive a holistic approach to CTEM that strengthens the overall effectiveness of the strategy. Attack surface management, vulnerability management, breach and attack simulation, continuous penetration testing, and exploit intelligence are all part of the package. Technological innovation further increases the effectiveness of the platform by leveraging AI automation and advanced algorithms to increase efficiency and visibility.

The people behind the Chariot platform add another layer of effectiveness. Chariot is backed by a highly skilled team of certified, customer-facing engineers who are adversarial security experts and are dedicated to being the first to find and fix their customers’ vulnerabilities.

“Our people are the top 1 percent in the security industry,” Copeland says. “They are computer scientists, software engineers, computational engineers, and the occasional physicist or mathematician who are industry-recognized security researchers, open source developers, public speakers, and peer-reviewed authors. Their focus is on leveraging their expertise and experience to improve the cybersecurity posture of our users.”

Increasing effectiveness by increasing focus

While defensive cybersecurity forces organizations to respond to suspicious activity, many who choose this route waste significant time and resources chasing suspicious activity. false positivesAccording to Copeland, an offensive approach is not only more efficient, but also more effective.

“Internal security teams that must respond to a high volume of alerts, many of which are false positives or low priority, begin to experience alert fatigue, but this can distract them from real threats and increase the risk of successful cyberattacks,” Copeland explained. “The Chariot platform eliminates alert fatigue by first using advanced algorithms and machine learning to prioritize and filter alerts, then deploying our certified human offensive engineers to triage each finding. By taking this approach, Chariot focuses on exploitable risks, not superficial detections, allowing security teams to focus on the most critical threats.”

Chariot increases cybersecurity efficiency by providing users with precision, enabling them to identify the threats that pose the greatest risk to their systems and close gaps before a threat becomes a breach. The Vulnerability Management component systematically identifies, assesses, and addresses vulnerabilities across an organization’s entire digital infrastructure.

As Chariot identifies weaknesses and prescribes remediation, the window of opportunity closes for attackers. Every element of an organization’s attack surface is examined, including internal, external, cloud, web apps, secrets, phishing, and third-party attack vectors. Every red flag is triaged to identify material risks that require attention and filter out superficial distractions.

While cyberattack methods may be sophisticated, their underlying strategy is simple: find a weakness and exploit it. Praetorian’s Chariot platform neutralizes that strategy by allowing organizations to be the first to identify their vulnerabilities. It provides organizations with a proactive solution to ensure their continuity, reputation, and overall success.

“Comprehensive cybersecurity is critical for every organization because cyberthreats don’t discriminate based on size or industry,” Copeland said. “Without a program that proactively identifies and addresses threats, organizations increase their risk of catastrophic loss.”