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Last reviewed and updated | October 20, 2026

Exposure

A condition, asset or configuration that leaves an organization susceptible to a cyber threat. These can occur in cloud accounts, line-of-business applications, corporate applications or elsewhere in an information architecture.

Glossary

Compliance
Control
Continuous controls monitoring (CCM)
Control effectiveness
Control coverage
Control mapping
Control gap
Finding
Traceability
Continuous assurance
Point-in-time audit
Compliance drift
Governance, risk and compliance (GRC)
Compliance
Cybersecurity
Frontier AI
AI-accelerated threat
Exposure management
Continuous threat exposure management (CTEM)
CVSS
Exposure scoring with business context
Asset criticality
Application owner attribution
Remediation validation
Zero-day vulnerability
AI governance
Risk prioritization
Exposure
CVE
Data Management
Entity resolution
Data lineage
Identity and Access
User access review (UAR)
Access certification
Entitlement
Identity governance and administration (IGA)
Disconnected application
Mainframe access review
Reviewer rubber-stamping
Joiner, mover, leaver
Access removal time
Non-human identity
Security Data Fabric
Security data fabric
Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF)
Data federation

Why it matters

Exposures increase the risk of companies experiencing a cyber attack. Ensuring that exposures are identified and resolved quickly is part of reducing overall cyber risk.

How it works

Organizations typically discover exposures using a scanning solution that identifies when they exist in their systems. Exposures can have an associated CVSS, but just as commonly do not have one because they are a misconfiguration and not an outright vulnerability.