Exposure management for banks
Build a proactive cyber defense across your attack surface — legacy, cloud, AI, and beyond — to strengthen cyber resilience and reduce risk with an exposure management program.
Deflect threats. Satisfy regulators. Delight banking customers.
Close your bank’s priority cyber weaknesses before attackers can exploit them. Protect sensitive data, prevent disruption, focus on strategic priorities, and meet regulatory compliance mandates with exposure management.
Close the security exposures threatening your bank’s resilience
Focus security and remediation teams on the vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and identity weaknesses that create systemic risk — and that attackers, like Scattered Spider, are known to exploit.
Expand attack surface visibility
See all of your bank's cyber risks and exposures — across assets, identities, cloud services, AI platforms, OT devices, and more — in a single, unified platform, no matter how fast you pursue digital innovations and transformation.
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Gain risk insight to maximize security efficiency
Proactively identify the exposures — the vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and identity weaknesses — that combine to create attack paths leading to your organization’s most critical systems and sensitive data. Focus security and remediation teams on closing your highest-risk exposures.
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Improve board-level cyber risk and compliance reporting
Quantify your bank’s evolving cyber exposure. Gain a unified, measurable, and business-aligned view of your bank’s cyber risk and compliance posture to facilitate quarterly reports to your board of directors. Demonstrate compliance with regulations and frameworks like FFIEC, NIST, DORA, and ISO 27001.
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Close priority exposures to reduce risk and build resilience
Remediate the exposures that create the biggest financial, operational, and resiliency risks for your bank. Accelerate response and streamline remediation with automated workflows and prescriptive guidance.
Accelerate remediation
Assess your exposure management maturity
Do you have elements of a continuous threat exposure management program in place? Take our quick self-assessment. Find out where your bank stands on the path to exposure management maturity.
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Why choose Tenable for exposure management?
Strengthen compliance
Simplify compliance reporting with data aligned to security frameworks like FFIEC, NIST, DORA, and ISO 27001.
Simplify risk insights
Apply business-aligned insights about your exposure landscape to drive proactive risk mitigation and ensure alignment with your bank’s strategic goals.
Gain continuous visibility
Forgo static, point-in-time assessments. Use continuous, dynamic analytics that assess changes in exposure, threat, and asset criticality data across your entire attack surface.
Streamline risk management
Leverage a dynamic policy engine to track risks, enforce tailored hygiene policies, and prioritize violations for faster, smarter remediation.
How exposure management helps banks address strategic priorities
| Strategic priority | How exposure management helps |
|---|---|
| Digital experience/customer-centricity/growth | When your bank invests in digital products like mobile apps, fintech integrations, and open banking platforms, its attack surface expands. Exposure management helps you identify and manage your bank’s expanding attack surface so that digital innovation doesn’t increase risk. |
| Operational efficiency and cost discipline | Exposure management aligns security to business risk. It prioritizes your bank’s highest-risk exposures for remediation. Moreover, by monitoring the AI attack surface, exposure management helps to mitigate the security risks of AI development and deployment. |
| Technology enablement and legacy modernization | As your bank modernizes its tech stack (cloud, APIs, microservices, network segmentation), exposure management gives you visibility into new infrastructure and helps secure this transformation. |
| Risk, resilience and regulatory preparedness | Exposure management directly aligns with regulatory expectations around continuous monitoring, supply chain risk, and incident prevention/resilience, from the FFIEC, the U.S. Treasury Department, and others. |
| Operational resilience | By identifying and closing the attack paths that lead to your bank’s most critical systems and data, exposure management helps to proactively prevent high-impact breaches and build resilience. |
Exposure management for banks FAQ
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What is exposure management in banking?
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Exposure management is a strategic approach to proactive security designed to reduce cyber risk by continuously identifying, contextualizing, prioritizing, and closing your bank’s most urgent cyber exposures. Cyber exposures are toxic combinations of preventable cyber risks, such as vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and identity weaknesses, that can lead to significant operational disruption or other material impacts when exploited.
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How is exposure management different from traditional vulnerability management?
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Traditional vulnerability management identifies and patches known flaws. Exposure management goes further. It correlates vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, identity risks, and attack paths to understand how those weaknesses could impact critical banking systems or regulatory obligations, so you can prioritize what truly matters to business resilience and compliance.
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Why do banks need exposure management now?
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The modern banking ecosystem is expanding rapidly through digital channels, AI and cloud adoption, fintech partnerships, and open APIs. The expansion creates a vast and constantly shifting attack surface for highly motivated threat actors to exploit. Reactive cybersecurity strategies that overwhelmingly focus on post-compromise threat detection and response do little to mitigate risk. In contrast, exposure management gives you a threat actor’s view of your bank’s attack surface. It proactively shows you the vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and excessive permissions that attackers are likely to exploit to gain access, move laterally, elevate their privileges, and ultimately, steal data or disrupt operations.
How does exposure management support regulatory compliance in the banking industry?
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Exposure management aligns with regulations requiring continuous monitoring, risk quantification, and documented resilience strategies. By maintaining up-to-date exposure visibility, your bank can generate evidence-based reports and dashboards mapped to frameworks like FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool (CAT), ISO 27001, and the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) requirements, thereby helping to simplify audits and reduce compliance burdens.
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What business and cybersecurity outcomes can banks expect from implementing exposure management?
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Banks running mature exposure management programs typically achieve measurable reductions in cyber exposure, faster remediation cycles, and an improved cybersecurity and compliance posture. Exposure management helps security and risk teams shift from reactive defense to proactive resilience.
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