Security Exposure Management Workspace
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Summary of Security Exposure Management Workspace
The Security Exposure Management Workspace offers a centralized, role-based environment designed specifically for security teams to investigate exposures, execute remediation, configure automation, and track risk reduction progress. It consolidates visibility across findings, remediation tasks, approvals, and administration, enabling efficient team collaboration and faster, clearer responses to security risks.
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Key Features
- Multiple Role-Based Views: Tailored interfaces for security analysts, remediation owners, vulnerability managers, governance teams, and administrators ensure each role accesses relevant data and actions.
- Real-Time Exposure Visibility: Dashboards and AI-driven insights provide up-to-date understanding of security exposures and prioritized issues.
- Automated Workflows: Automation and prioritized remediation help teams act quickly and effectively against threats.
- Centralized Governance: Manage compliance and exceptions in one unified approval workflow with full visibility.
- Collaboration Support: Role-specific views promote shared awareness and confident decision-making based on current insights.
- Comprehensive Administration: Centralized configuration of integrations, rules, notifications, severity mappings, and visualizations via a single admin console.
Workspace Views and Their Functions
- Finding View: Provides security analysts with dashboards to explore exposures, prioritize remediation using insights, and initiate actions.
- Watch Topics: Allows threat analysts, CISOs, and vulnerability managers to monitor high-priority vulnerability categories continuously, track trends, and trigger remediation.
- Remediation View: Enables remediation owners and IT/security teams to plan, track, and collaborate on remediation tasks and deadlines.
- Cloud Exposure View: Offers vulnerability managers and security analysts a unified perspective on cloud risks, assets, images, and compliance standards.
- Approvals: Centralizes governance and risk teams’ management of vulnerability and compliance exception approvals with full status tracking and decision recording.
- Lists: Provides vulnerability analysts, remediation owners, and security managers with customizable lists to monitor findings, tasks, approvals, and exceptions.
- Administration: For admins and platform owners to configure and govern settings, integrations, automation, and notifications centrally.
Getting Started and Next Steps
Access the workspace through Workspaces > Security Exposure Management. Available views and actions depend on your assigned role. To maximize effectiveness, explore detailed guidance for each view including Findings, Watch Topics, Remediation, Cloud Exposure, Approvals, Lists, and Administration.
The Security Exposure Management Workspace provides a unified, role-based environment where security teams can investigate exposures, take remediation actions, configure automation, and track risk reduction progress in one place. It centralizes visibility across findings, remediation tasks, approvals, and administration, helping teams collaborate efficiently and respond to risks with clarity and speed.
Security Exposure Management Workspace benefits
The workspace provides multiple views designed for specific workflows, such as prioritizing critical issues, approving exceptions, managing remediation plans, and configuring automation, all in one place, without switching tools or interfaces.
- Gain real-time visibility into your exposure landscape with dashboards and AI-driven insights
- Act faster and smarter with automated workflows and prioritized remediation
- Ensure compliance through centralized governance and exception management
- Improve collaboration with role-based views tailored to each team’s responsibilities
Role-based views ensure that security analysts, remediation owners, vulnerability managers, governance teams, and administrators work with shared awareness and act confidently based on the latest insights.
Workspace views and capabilities
Each view in the Security Exposure Management Workspace is designed for a specific purpose and role, providing targeted functionality to manage security exposures effectively.
| View | Key Functions | Primary users | Key Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finding view | Gain a clear, real-time understanding of your exposure landscape through dashboards that surface risks and insight-driven priorities | Security analysts | Explore default or custom dashboards, drill into detailed findings, initiate remediation activities, and use Now Assist insights to prioritize critical issues and respond faster |
| Watch Topics | Continuously track and monitor specific high-priority vulnerability categories that require ongoing attention or strategic focus | Threat analysts, CISOs, Vulnerability managers | Create and refine watch topics, monitor trends and severity changes, evaluate business impact, trigger remediation efforts when thresholds are met |
| Remediation view | Plan, manage, and track remediation work across teams to ensure timely and effective resolution | Remediation owners, IT operations, security analysts | View assigned tasks, update progress, collaborate with owners, track deadlines |
| Cloud Exposure view | Gain a unified view to monitor and respond to top cloud risks through multiple lenses, including assets, images, and regulatory standards. | Vulnerability managers, Security analysts | View risk by cloud asset, drill into asset and finding details, and initiate remediation activities. |
| Approvals | Manage and track all vulnerability and compliance exception approvals in a single, unified workflow with full visibility into request status and urgency | Governance & Risk teams, approvers | Review contextual details for each approval request, take approval actions, view overdue and pending items, access finding details, and record comments or decisions directly |
| Lists | Access complete lists of findings, remediation tasks, approvals, and exceptions to monitor status, ownership, and progress. | Vulnerability analysts, remediation owners, security managers | Navigate predefined or custom lists, drill into records, create and manage custom lists, monitor status and ownership, and take follow-up actions such as updating records or processing approvals |
| Administration | Configure and govern Security Exposure Management settings centrally to ensure consistent policies, integrations, and automation across the environment | Admins, Platform owners | Manage integrations, configure rules and automation, set up email notifications and templates, map severity levels, and customize visualization settings from a unified Admin Console |
Getting started
Access the Security Exposure Management Workspace by navigating to . Your available views and actions depend on your assigned role.
Next steps
Explore detailed guidance for each Security Exposure Management Workspace view:
Security Exposure Management Workspace Findings view
Security Exposure Management Workspace Watch Topics
Viewing the Cloud Exposure View dashboard
Security Exposure Management Approvals View
Security Exposure Management Workspace List view