Blue Report 2025: The State of Exposure Management

The State of Threat Exposure Management in 2025

This comprehensive research by Picus Labs, based on a global analysis of over 160 million simulated cyber-attacks, sets the benchmark for understanding and improving threat exposure management.

Our key findings highlight that security teams must:

Strengthen credential security: Credential cracking nearly doubled, with 46% of environments compromised, up from 25% in 2024.

Reinforce data exfiltration defenses: Prevention plummeted to just 3%, despite surging threats from infostealers and double extortion ransomware.

Continuously validate prevention effectiveness: Overall prevention effectiveness declined from 69% to 62%, exposing critical security gaps amid increasingly sophisticated attacks.