Adversaries are increasingly leveraging AI to identify unpatchable legacy systems and zero-day vulnerabilities faster than ever before. From boardrooms to living rooms, the discussion is turning to the shrinking window between vulnerability discovery and exploitation.
While AI-driven attacks are ramping up, defenders now have the tools to stay ahead. By integrating deep intelligence across IT, OT, IoT, cloud, and mobile environments, organizations can move from passive asset listing to proactive risk reduction. Now is the time to prepare and understand the most effective strategy for countering this new reality with comprehensive exposure management built to outpace AI threats.
runZero: Definitive record of risk reduction for AI threats #
With AI's ability to quickly chain vulnerabilities together, having a single source of truth for exposure management across your total attack surface is crucial. runZero now serves as the definitive system of record for risk reduction, managing the entire remediation lifecycle from identification to verified closure.
Traditional vulnerability tools often leave defenders buried in noise. By leading with exposure-driven decisions and keeping the network picture current, runZero allows security teams to instantly uncover critical exposures and validate network isolation before an attacker finds the gaps.
runZero’s Exposure Management Platform is a game-changer for defenders. It delivers complete visibility and exposure intelligence across your entire attack surface, including IT, OT, IoT, mobile, and cloud, without agents, credentials, or appliances.
With the combined power of runZero 4.9 and 5.0, defenders can map hidden attack paths, identify segmentation gaps, and verify remediation against live discovery data. This shift from reactive patching to proactive, risk-based prioritization ensures that defenders win by default, even against AI-driven threats.
By uncovering hidden exposure and risks beyond CVEs, runZero identifies security issues that align with real-world attacker targets and carry significant business impact. Bringing all of this critical context together enables organizations to focus on proactive, risk-based prioritization. You can't fix what you can't see, and you can't prioritize what you don't understand in context.
How runZero transforms exposure management in the age of AI-driven discovery:
1. Comprehensive asset inventory: runZero provides industry-leading discovery and fingerprinting across internal, external, IT, OT, IoT, and cloud environments without requiring agents or credentials. By unmasking field-level devices and sub-assets hidden behind protocol gateways, it ensures you have a complete picture of your attack surface.
2. Advanced attack path mapping and interactive topology: Visualize exactly how an attacker could move through your network with interactive 2D and 3D maps. By setting source and target nodes, you can trace trajectories from initial compromise to operational impact, identifying critical choke points and multi-homed devices that bypass segmentation.
3. Protocol exposure identification: Detects devices and inherently insecure industrial protocols (like Modbus, BACnet, and S7comm) that are exposed to the IT domain. With support for over 220 protocols, runZero flags "low-hanging fruit" that AI-driven threats target to disrupt operations.
4. Focused exposure intelligence dashboard: The 5.0 release introduces a new default dashboard that prioritizes exposures most likely to lead to an incident. It instantly surfaces critical issues, emerging threats, and recent environment changes, allowing teams to focus on the assets that pose the greatest operational risk.
5. Enhanced vulnerability prioritization and impact insights: Beyond basic CVE scores, runZero 5.0 correlates asset hardware and software data with known advisories to provide "Missing Patches" entries with remediation recommendations. This reduces noise by highlighting vulnerabilities that carry significant business impact in your specific context.
6. Faster, verified remediation workflows: Drive execution through bi-directional Jira integration, tracking ownership and status transitions directly within runZero. Most importantly, defenders can verify fixes against live state scans to ensure that gaps are truly fixed before closing the ticket.
7. Interactive exposure reporting: Share critical risk assessments with stakeholders via automated, interactive email reports. Recipients can search, filter, and drill down into details without needing a runZero login, easing the burden of executive and compliance reporting.
Bottom line #
As AI helps attackers exploit network exposures faster than ever, an "assume-breach" mentality is a necessity. By mapping attack paths, identifying exposures, and validating segmentation, defenders can shrink their attack surface and stay ahead of the avalanche.
And before AI bug reports become an avalanche that you cannot dig out from, you should consider deploying runZero to gain the comprehensive visibility and context needed to prioritize vulnerabilities and other security risks (misconfigurations, unknown assets, segmentation gaps, etc.) that matter most for securing your environment.
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