Exposure Management permissions

Configure Exposure Management permissions in Cortex XSIAM.

Exposure Management permissions provide a risk-based approach to prioritizing and remediating security exposures across your organization. Exposure Management ties together vulnerability data, attack-surface context, and security-control posture to provide actionable risk prioritization.

Notice

Requires the Exposure Management license. To enable Exposure Management, contact Customer Support.

The permissions control access to Security Controls (tracking the effectiveness of compensating controls against vulnerabilities) and Effectiveness Rules (configurable rules defining how control effectiveness is measured)

For more information, see Exposure Management.

Permission	Description	Roles Example
None	No access to Exposure Management features; Security Controls hidden.
View	Read-only access to Exposure Management, such as Security Controls, effectiveness data, and exposure dashboards.	SOC Tier 1, 2, and 3 Analysts: Needs visibility into exposures and vulnerabilities for initial triage; should not modify rules or policies. Threat Hunter: Needs read access for threat research and correlation; typically does not modify rules or policies.
View/Edit	Full access to manage Exposure Management, including Security Controls.	Security Engineer: Configures exposure remediation workflows.

Required and recommended permissions

To effectively prioritize risk and assess control effectiveness, administrators and analysts require deep visibility into the underlying cases, vulnerabilities, and asset inventories. Consider adding the following permissions:

Permission	Permission Level	Reason
Cases & Issues	View or View/Edit	View: Strongly recommended to view issues linked to exposure findings. Without this, users can see security controls, but cannot see the issues that triggered them. View/Edit: Recommended to actively triage and respond to issues linked to exposure findings.
Vulnerability Management	View or View/Edit	View: Required for the Effectiveness Rules view and vulnerability issue integration. View/Edit: Strongly recommended for control effectiveness overrides.
Attack Surface Rules	View	Recommended. Provides context on attack surface rules that feed into exposure data. Useful for understanding the source of exposure findings.
Asset Inventory	View	Recommended to access the broader asset inventory. Provides context on the assets affected by security control gaps.