Introducing TruConfirm for Enterprise TruRisk™ Management: Automated Exposure Validation
Enterprise security leaders and their teams face an impossible challenge: drowning in thousands of critical exposures in an ever-expanding attack surface while simultaneously trying to determine which ones pose a genuine risk of exploitation in their organizational environment. Traditional CVSS scoring and even some advanced risk-based vulnerability management (RBVM) techniques can often leave one fundamental question unanswered: “Is this exposure actually exploitable in my environment, right now?”
Security teams waste valuable time and money chasing theoretical risks when they don’t have clear proof of exploitability. They also have trouble justifying urgent fixes to stakeholders and can’t be sure that their current security controls are really working against real-world attacks. To fill this important gap and help security teams feel more confident about how to prioritize their work, Qualys is launching TruConfirm. This capability within the Enterprise TruRisk™ Management (ETM) platform validates whether exposures in an organization’s environment are truly exploitable in practice—using safe, controlled techniques that replicate real-world attack methods. It gives security teams clear, evidence-based insight into risk from the perspective of how a threat actor could operate, enabling more confident prioritization and response.
What is TruConfirm?
TruConfirm is an exposure validation service built within Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Management (ETM). TruConfirm is different from theoretical risk scoring and simulated attack paths because it safely checks for real exploitability in your production environment. This gives security teams clear proof they need to prioritize with confidence and respond quickly.
By changing exposure management from a game of chance to a science of certainty for enterprises that must deal with increasingly complicated attack surfaces, this feature ensures that remediation efforts focus on real, current threats instead of possible ones, greatly improving the ability to respond to threats and allocate resources.
By ensuring that remediation efforts focus on the most dangerous exposures, TruConfirm cuts down the median-time-to-remediate (MTTR) and makes security operations more efficient. TruConfirm is only available to ETM customers. It works alongside exposure data from Qualys VMDR or third-party scanners to give you a complete picture of true risk.
How TruConfirm Works
TruConfirm leverages data that ETM ingests from any scanner source to find high-priority, weaponized exposures that are actively used by threat actors. It then tries to exploit the system in a safe and controlled way, using methods that are similar to those used by real attackers but without interfering with production systems. The process includes:
- Safe validation scans: Pre-tested, exploit-based checks confirm if exposures can be exploited externally or internally, bypassing mitigations as attackers would.
- Threat enrichment: Results are improved with information about the threat actors, the industries they are targeting, the malware they are using, and the complete exploitation walkthrough.
- Proof of control effectiveness: When exploits fail, TruConfirm records which defenses (like WAF, firewalls, and EDR) worked, showing that the mitigations worked.
- Risk elevation: Confirmed exploitable exposures get higher TruRisk scores, which work with ETM workflows to prioritize them right away and give guidance on how to fix them with one click.
Why TruConfirm is a Game Changer
Before TruConfirm, security teams used theoretical scoring models, simulation tools, and static prioritization to guess how easy it would be to exploit an exposure in their organization. Now they can actually prove it. TruConfirm can lead to several quantifiable outcomes, including:
- Reduction in median time to remediate (MTTR) thanks to clear proof exploitability.
- Optimized remediation resources by focusing teams on exploitable exposures.
- Greater confidence in risk metrics as TruConfirm provides the “ground truth” validation that refines all TruRiskTM scores.
- Fully embedded within the Qualys ETM platform, TruConfirm combines exposure data with business-critical context for smarter decision-making.
TruConfirm is designed to work alongside the rest of the ETM ecosystem, including Agentic AI and TruLens, to give security teams the information and tools they need to respond to the AI-enhanced threat landscape.
TruConfirm and TruLens deliver the perfect one-two punch. TruLens gives you contextual threat intelligence, and TruConfirm lets you know whether trending attacks are really exploitable in your network. Additionally, by leveraging ETM’s built-in Agentic AI capabilities (Agent Nyra), security teams can be proactively alerted to emerging threats and automate patching and mitigation playbooks, thereby further optimizing the response efficiency.
Key Benefits
Without TruConfirm, security teams must rely on static CVSS scores, unproven assumptions about how to fix problems, and false positives from complicated and costly breach-and-attack simulation (BAS) tools. Manually trying to figure out the blast radius or security control performance puts even more strain on resources, slowing down responses and making it harder to set priorities.
Integrating TruConfirm into Qualys ETM changes the way you prioritize from theoretical triage to evidence-based decision making. This means teams can rapidly identify critical exposures, focus resources on high-impact risks, and drastically reduce MTTR. It also gives clear information about which security investments are effective, which helps build trust in defenses and find areas that need improvement. This proof-backed exposure validation makes both internal teams and external regulators more confident in compliance and audits.
Security teams get political capital from strong evidence, letting them quickly get to work on fixes. When used alongside TruLens threat intelligence, teams can find industry-specific campaigns like Scattered Spider or Cl0p ransomware and quickly check to see if any related exposures can be used in their environment. This turns global trends into local action.
Conclusion
Cyber risk management has changed focus from just being able to see risks to being able to effectively prioritize them. TruConfirm goes even further by validating it. This is where security teams stop guessing and start showing which threats are real. TruConfirm gives security leaders the proof they need to act quickly instead of waiting for something to happen. No more talking about severity scores or going through theoretical vulnerabilities. Just confirmed proof from the real world of what attackers can use right now.
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