Cyber risk reduction playbook

THE COMMON STRUGGLE

Almost 80% of enterprises start in
the same place

CISOs are under pressure from boards, insurers, and regulators to demonstrate measurable risk reduction. And while every enterprise’s journey is unique, most start with the same challenges:

Balbix meets you where you are. Instead of prescribing a one-size-fits-all playbook, we provide the capability and framework to help you reduce risk starting from your unique baseline.

Some collect vulnerability data but miss half their assets.

Most waste cycles on prioritization and ownership.

Many can’t translate exposure into financial risk.

FROM INSIGHTS TO IMPACT

Turning visibility into measurable reduction

Balbix operationalizes the modern CTEM approach to cyber risk reduction. Instead of static scans or quarterly workshops, we enable a continuous cycle of:

Think of Balbix as the operating system for your cyber risk program — flexible enough to match your environment, structured enough to deliver measurable results quickly.

Scoping and discovery
Ingest 150+ data sources, normalize and deduplicate into a Cyber Asset Graph, then align discovery with business priorities.

Prioritization
Use AI models to highlight “why this, why now” exposures based on exploitability, blast radius, and business impact.

Validation
Confirm which exposures truly matter — filtering noise and verifying attacker viability.

Mobilization
Engage resolver teams with SLA-driven workflows, ownership, and board-ready reporting.

YOUR JOURNEY, YOUR PACE

Adapting to your reality

Every organization’s cyber risk journey is different – building visibility, burning down risk, or operationalizing across IT, cloud, and DevOps.The trap is treating these steps as sequential: “First visibility, then prioritization, then operationalization.” By the time one is done, the next is stale. Cyber risk doesn’t wait.

Read the blog Cyber Risk Isn’t a Backlog Problem. It’s a Parallel Processing Problem.

Balbix lets you start anywhere and move faster by running all phases in parallel:

See and reduce, simultaneously: As you discover and map assets, Balbix immediately starts burndown on those already above the telemetry threshold.

Prioritize with expanding context: While remediation teams sprint, Balbix enriches visibility across cloud, apps, and identities to strengthen prioritization.

Operationalize from day one: Intake, SLA tracking, validation, and reporting begin immediately, not “later.”

This approach ensures faster time to value, no bottlenecks, and durable, SLA-driven improvement.

The three phases of risk reduction

Phase 1

Scope and discover: See everything with confidence

Connect 150+ data sources (EDR, VM, CMDB, cloud, identity, threat intel).
Normalize, deduplicate, and map into a Cyber Asset Graph.
Achieve “good enough” telemetry (score ~70) to make visibility actionable.

Balbix advantage

Good-telemetry burndown
Focus immediately on the assets/apps already above the telemetry threshold.

Phase 2

Prioritize and validate: Reduce risk where it matters most

Prioritize exposures by exploitability (KEV, EPSS), blast radius, and business impact.
Run remediation sprints with IT and app owners.
Track risk delta and velocity across business units.

Balbix advantage

Context expansion
As teams reduce prioritized exposures, Balbix’s AI continuously expands and validates visibility across cloud, apps, and identities, ensuring prioritization decisions are always based on the richest and most defensible context.

Phase 3

Mobilize: Make risk reduction routine

Establish a closed-loop workflow: intake → prioritize → assign → remediate → validate → close.
Drive SLA-based accountability across IT, cloud, and dev teams.
Deliver board-ready reporting in financial terms.

Balbix advantage

Operational CTEM
Stand up the durable engine that makes cyber risk reduction continuous, automating intake, routing, SLA tracking, validation, and reporting.

Results

From scanning to strategy

Balbix transforms exposure management from a compliance checkbox into a measurable, board-ready program. Customers report:

Legacy tools stop at scanning. Balbix delivers continuous, contextualized, and quantifiable exposure management —making CTEM real.

OUR EDGE

Why Balbix

Balbix is not just another dashboard. We provide:

Think of Balbix as the operating system for your cyber risk program — flexible enough to match your environment, structured enough to deliver measurable results quickly.