Your board doesn’t care about CVE counts. They care about business risk. Microsoft Security Exposure Management (MSEM) gives security teams the tools to bridge that gap – but only if you know how to connect the technical capabilities to business language.

This session focuses on the strategic layer: how to use MSEM’s security initiatives, attack path analysis, and critical asset management to build a Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) program that speaks directly to business goals. We’ll walk through defining what “critical” means for your organization by mapping crown-jewel assets to business processes, using the Enterprise Exposure Graph to visualize cross-domain risk chains, and translating exposure metrics into boardroom-ready reporting. You’ll see how MSEM fits into the broader Defender XDR ecosystem – including its integration with Defender for Cloud and external data connectors – and how to use its maturity model to benchmark your organization against a five-level progression from reactive to business-aligned.

This is the session for anyone who needs to make security posture management meaningful to people who sign budgets.

Assumed Knowledge:

You’ll need experience in managing security in corporate platforms, such as Azure and Microsoft 365

Practical Takeaways:

How to map MSEM’s security initiatives to specific business objectives and risk appetite. A practical framework for building CTEM reporting that resonates with executive stakeholders. Real examples of using attack path analysis and critical asset tagging to prioritize what actually matters

Out of Session Scope:

Basics of Defender XDR and the Microsoft security stack