Unlocking Continuous Threat Exposure Management: New Features for Prioritizing Remediation Based on Business Impact

In today’s fast-paced cybersecurity landscape, the sheer volume of findings and lack of context makes effective risk management and prioritized remediation a major pain point. In February, we helped you break through the noise with the addition of PlexTrac Priorities, the industry’s first context-based risk scoring engine to help you track and prioritize thematic groupings of findings and assets for risk-based remediation.

We are now taking our prioritization one step further by enabling you to configure risk scoring at the individual finding level so you can prioritize risk across all your consolidated proactive security findings. 

Not only that, we have added several new features designed to help enterprises and security service providers harness their proactive security data by automating context-based risk scoring to fix what matters most, automating remediation workflows with event-driven interoperability, and measuring the effectiveness of proactive security measures in mitigating risk over time.  These new enhancements allow security teams to make significant strides in automating the Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) lifecycle as part of an ongoing risk mitigation strategy.

New Features

Findings Risk Scoring

We are thrilled to introduce findings risk scoring. With findings risk scoring, you can control the equation that’s defining your risk score to ensure that you’re prioritizing remediation efforts based on what’s critical to your organization or your client’s organization. For MSSPs, this means that you can now sell and deliver prioritized remediation to customers at the findings level or at the grouped priorities level. This also means that you can customize scoring equations for clients based on their individual needs. 

For enterprises, findings risk scoring enables you to address what needs to be fixed first so you can reduce manual prioritization efforts and speed your mean time to remediation. You can focus on the issues posing the largest risk to your business, and not just rely on CVSS or other generic scores. 

Enhanced Client-Level Jira Integration

Ready to pass findings off for remediation? You can now leverage our robust Jira integration to pass vulnerabilities for remediation or retesting at the organization or client level. With our bi-deirectional design, you can tie into any pre existing workflows without any process disruptions. MSSPs, this integration enables you to improve communication between your team and your client’s team while also enabling your clients to make the most of their Jira investment. Enterprises, this integration is very valuable if you have different Jira instances across business units if you work with external stakeholders. 

Findings Dashboard Metrics

Let’s not forget about the importance of visibility when it comes to your risk posture. PlexTrac now offers a single pane of glass for visibility on your progress and updates. With detailed analytics, you can answer the crucial question: “Are we improving our risk posture over time?” 

Our findings dashboard metrics enable you to dynamically interact with real-time findings and asset data for effective decision-making, reporting, and communication with your teams and clients.

Webhooks

Guess what? We’ve also added webhooks by popular demand. Webhooks enable event driven automation to take place at both the tenancy and client level for the following events:

This means you can tie these events (like report status, new assessment submissions, new engagement requests, etc.) from PlexTrac to trigger into other workflows to further streamline your processes. Best of all? There is no need for a technical resource to set it up. A PlexTrac admin can easily do so using our user interface. When a new report or assessment is published, you can trigger a Slack notification, for example, so the necessary parties are immediately notified.

MSSP, webhooks is an  especially valuable feature because you can enable custom workflows at the individual client level. For example, when a report or assessment is published, you can auto-trigger communication to the customer in their system of choice so they can jump in to begin remediation.

Conclusion

In a world where cybersecurity threats are constantly evolving, having the right tools to manage your findings efficiently is crucial. With PlexTrac’s configurable contextual scoring and streamlined workflows, you can break through the noise, prioritize what matters, and enhance your overall security posture.

Are you ready to transform your approach to security remediation? Discover more about our new features including demo videos by visiting our landing page. 

PlexTrac Team Editorial Group At PlexTrac, we bring together insights from a diverse range of voices. Our blog features contributions from industry experts, ethical hackers, CTOs, influencers, and PlexTrac team members—all sharing valuable perspectives on cybersecurity, pentesting, and risk management.