Your team gets a new batch of vulnerability findings. The list is long. The context is thin. Somewhere in there is the exposure that actually matters.

This is where most security programs stall. Not from lack of tooling, but from lack of clarity on where to act first.

In this PeerScape, IDC interviewed security leaders across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific to understand how organizations are managing exposure at scale. A few things stood out:

• Only 47% of organizations use prioritization algorithms to decide what to remediate. The rest rely on CVSS scores that don't reflect their environment's actual risk.
• Asset ownership delays are a hidden driver of mean time to patch, and most CMDBs make this worse.
• Teams that treat exposure management as a cross-functional problem, not a security-only one, consistently get to remediation faster.

The  IDC PeerScape, Best Practices in Exposure Management, translates these findings into four practices your peers are using to make measurable progress, even with constrained resources.