Tenable announces formation of Exposure Management Leadership Council

Tenable (TENB) announced the formation of the Exposure Management Leadership Council, a new working group dedicated to developing and advancing principles, best practices, policies and frameworks for exposure management. Composed of Chief Information Security Officers and cybersecurity leaders from leading global organizations across a range of industries, including insurance, technology, transportation, legal and consumer packaged foods, the Council’s mission is to mature exposure management into a widespread proactive security discipline that demonstrably reduces organizations’ cyber exposure. The council released a new report, “Board meetings and the dreaded cyber risk update: a use case for exposure management,” which captures highlights, anecdotes and insights from the inaugural meeting. The report analyzes the critical communication gap between security leaders and their boards of directors and offers a new path forward. The report finds a persistent disconnect in the boardroom that impairs organizations’ ability to effectively manage and mitigate cyber risk at a time of heightened exposure and regulatory scrutiny. The disconnect stems from the security operations metrics that CISOs have historically shared during quarterly board meetings-metrics that fail to accurately capture and communicate an organization’s true cyber exposure in large part because they’re sourced from disparate, siloed security tools.