This report presents key insights drawn from hundreds of thousands of attack path assessments conducted through the XM Cyber Continuous Exposure Management (CEM) platform during 2023. These assessments uncovered over 40 million exposures affecting 11.5 million entities deemed critical to business operations. Data gathered from the XM Cyber platform were anonymized and provided to Cyentia Institute for independent analysis to generate the insights.

Our second annual report presents key insights drawn from tens of thousands of attack path assessments conducted through XM Cyber’s exposure management platform during 2022. These assessments uncovered over 60 million exposures affecting 10 million entitles deemed critical to business operations. Anonymized datasets were exported from the XM Cyber platform and provided to Cyentia Institute for analysis.

This report shares insights from the XM Cyber Research team’s analysis of the Attack Path Management platform from January 1st, 2021 - December 31st, 2021. The Impact report begins with a close look at the methodology of attack paths and then reveals the impact of attack techniques used to compromise critical assets across organizations, whether hybrid, on-prem or multi-cloud.