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September 18, 2025

The Evolution of Risk Reduction: Contextual Analysis and Automated Remediation in Threat and Exposure Management

Tyler Shields
Principal Analyst, Risk & Vulnerability Management

Emily Marsh
Associate Research Director

Market Topics

Cybersecurity

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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