Many organizations still rely on periodic assessments that don’t reflect how attackers operate. Annual pentests, episodic reviews, and scanner backlogs may check compliance boxes, but they don’t reveal real risk or progress. Leaders need a confident read on readiness, and practitioners need a structured way to prove their work reduces attacker opportunity.
That’s why we’re introducing Threat Informed Perspectives, a new capability in the NodeZero® Offensive Security Platform, built to align security measurement with attacker reality.
Why a Threat Informed Approach Matters
Across CTEM and RBVM, the direction is clear: measure exposure the way attackers evaluate opportunity, not by raw counts or severity alone. Meaningful measurement needs adversary context. Recent Gartner® guidance reinforces this shift: exposure management should be threat‑informed, continuously validated, and tied to measurable risk reduction.
Threat Informed Perspectives aligns to that direction by giving teams a structured, attacker‑aligned way to assess exposure and to validate it continuously over time.
Security teams don’t struggle because they lack data. They struggle because they lack the attacker’s perspective of what is genuinely exploitable. Without a way to separate the signal from the noise, it becomes difficult to prioritize, verify fixes, or demonstrate improvement.
Threat Informed Perspectives provides that clarity.
What Threat Informed Perspectives Are
Threat Informed Perspectives give attacker‑aligned context across internal breaches, external exposure, weak credentials, phishing vectors, insider threats, and cloud misconfigurations. Instead of isolated findings, each perspective ties posture metrics to how an adversary would move from initial foothold to meaningful impact.
This approach gives teams a clear line of sight into:
- Which weaknesses attackers can exploit
- How those weaknesses translate into tangible business risk
- How exposure changes over time as fixes are applied
The goal isn’t more data, it’s focus on what truly drives operational risk.
How You Turn Perspectives Into a Program
Threat Informed Perspectives define the attacker scenarios that matter. Pentesting Campaigns turn them into a measurable program.
Campaigns add structure and repeatability: plan NodeZero tests by business priority, schedule recurring runs, track exposure trends, and retest to verify changes so teams see both progress and gaps.
Campaigns answer questions that previously lacked reliable measurement:
- Did remediation remove the attack path?
- How does exposure differ by business unit or environment?
- Are we improving quarter over quarter?
Instead of assumptions or annual snapshots, you get continuous evidence grounded in real attacker behavior.
Why This Is a Meaningful Improvement
Security teams want predictability, clarity, and proof of progress. Threat Informed Perspectives delivers all three by measuring what attackers can actually do, not theoretical risk.
It helps security teams focus on exploitable weaknesses, gives IT repeatable ways to verify that patches and configuration changes worked, and equips security leaders with an evidence‑based narrative.
Most importantly, it offers a practical way to answer a question that has historically been difficult to quantify: Are we more secure than we were last quarter?
With Threat Informed Perspectives, that answer is based on measurable reduction in attacker opportunity and verified closure of attack paths, not guesswork.
The Measurement Problem Solved Through Attacker Context
The industry’s measurement challenge stems from the gap between what tools report and what attackers look for. Vulnerability counts and severity scores don’t reflect real exposure, and they ignore reachability, chaining, and operational impact.
Threat Informed Perspectives focus on attacker conditions: exploitable paths, reachable assets, privilege‑escalation potential, and the controls that slow or stop an adversary. Measured consistently, these indicators produce trend lines that matter, not how many issues exist, but whether attacker opportunity is shrinking over time. That’s the real definition of improved posture.
A More Practical Operating Model
Threat Informed Perspectives and Pentesting Campaigns create a practical operating model anchored in attacker realism and measurable progress. This isn’t an abstract framework or a new reporting layer. It builds continuous validation into everyday security operations without adding complexity or noise.
It meets modern expectations from boards, insurers, and regulators—and, more importantly, matches how practitioners defend. The result is a program that is predictable, repeatable, and evidence-based.
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Threat Informed Perspectives and Pentesting Campaigns are now part of NodeZero, giving teams a structured, attacker-aligned way to understand exposure, validate improvements, and communicate posture with clarity and confidence. These capabilities strengthen your ability to track progress, support remediation workflows, and demonstrate real-world readiness over time.
See what attackers see.
Measure what matters.
Prove you’re getting more secure.