This service is now added to Optiv’s existing vulnerability management practices and is integrated with Optiv’s Agentic Security Operations managed service.
Leawood, Kansas, November 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Optiv, the world’s largest pure-play cybersecurity company, today announced an expansion of its Threat Exposure Management services to integrate with existing enterprise vulnerability management practices. Customers can now run exposure management as a unified, managed program across cloud and on-premises environments, with retesting to validate remediation outcomes.
The company stated that the time between public disclosure of a vulnerability and its first exploitation has been reduced to just a few days, and in some cases, only hours; meanwhile, attackers are increasingly using AI to identify exposed systems and test exploitation methods within minutes. Most organizations still take weeks to remediate, typically working through a backlog prioritized by severity scores. Optiv says its Threat Exposure Management service replaces this prioritization approach with continuous testing, revealing which exposure points attackers can access and exploit within customer environments, and guiding remediation efforts accordingly.
Optiv's Threat Exposure Management services include:
- Expert-led operations: The platform is operated and findings are reviewed by Optiv professionals, so the client team receives a prioritized task list rather than the platform’s raw output.
- Risk-based prioritization: Evaluate each exposure point based on its exploitability, existing controls, asset value, and business impact.
- Optiv's self-built AI agent: The agent developed for Optiv Agentic Security Operations correlates findings from scanners, cloud posture tools, and validation tests, and drafts remediation steps for practitioners to review.
- Verified remediation: Retest the remediation results to confirm that the exposure points have been closed, and report the findings to security management.
- Integrated security operations: This service works in tandem with existing Optiv vulnerability management programs and integrates with Optiv Agentic Security Operations, launched in August. The latter incorporates exposure management into the same managed service as detection and response, aligning with Optiv’s overall “consult, deploy, and operate” strategy.
Kathryn Hall, Senior Vice President of Optiv, said: “The most dangerous window is the period between identifying a vulnerability and completing the remediation. Because we operate both verification and detection, we ensure this window is never left unmonitored.”
She said: "The information we gain while testing attack paths is converted into detection rules in our SIEM on the same day, so customers are protected even while remediation efforts are still underway."
Optiv states that in cloud environments, attackers often chain together individual exposure points that seem insignificant on their own—such as internet-facing workloads, overly privileged identities, and accessible data stores—to gain access to sensitive data. Scoring findings individually overlooks this combined risk. Optiv maps cloud exposures into attack paths, identifies remediations that can interrupt each path, and verifies that the paths are closed after remediation.
Ben Spencer, Director of Products at Optiv, said: “AI enables attackers to discover exposure points and connect them together much faster than most security programs are organized to respond.”
He said, “Vulnerability management, cloud posture management, and penetration testing are typically handled by different teams at different paces. Unifying them as a single project allows us to view an environment from an attacker’s perspective and deliver verifiable remediations to those who truly bear the risk.”
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