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Risk Reduction Difficulty Is Growing, and So Are Organizations’ Risk Reduction…
DIY Threat and Exposure Management Poses Risks
Modern Threat and Exposure Management Moves Beyond Simply Showing Issues
Risk Reduction Requires Automated Remediation and Agentic AI
Organization and Process Changes Increase TEM Effectiveness
Conclusion
Research Methodology
Respondent Demographics
Research Report: The Evolution of Risk Reduction: Contextual Analysis and Automated Remediation in Threat and Exposure Management
Research Report
Sep 18, 2025
by
Tyler Shields, Emily Marsh, Enterprise Strategy Group Research
Threats, exposures, and assets are growing exponentially, leaving organizations’ security operations and TEM capabilities behind. Technology to support continuous cybersecurity data collection, AI-driven analysis of complete cybersecurity context, and the ability for autonomous agents to remediate issues quickly are all mandatory if security organizations desire to stay ahead of their growing risk profile.
Risk reduction is difficult, and homegrown technology solutions to the problem are becoming unmanageable. Security teams must move beyond continuously finding more issues that they don’t have the capability to fix and instead focus on creating automated and scalable remediation systems. To continue to improve, organizations must build automated security programs while breaking down the silos that exist between existing isolated tools and multiple security and technology owners.
To gain further insight into these trends, Enterprise Strategy Group surveyed 400 IT and cybersecurity decision-makers at organizations in North America (U.S. and Canada) involved with or responsible for discovering and reducing threats and vulnerabilities in their organizations.
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Table of Contents
Executive Summary
Report Conclusions
Introduction
Research Objectives
Research Findings
Risk Reduction Difficulty Is Growing, and So Are Organizations’ Risk Reduction Budgets
DIY Threat and Exposure Management Poses Risks
Modern Threat and Exposure Management Moves Beyond Simply Showing Issues
Risk Reduction Requires Automated Remediation and Agentic AI
Organization and Process Changes Increase TEM Effectiveness
