Balbix D3: A New Dawn for Faster Burndown of Exposures and Vulnerabilities

Cybersecurity is a race against time. With attackers becoming increasingly sophisticated, the ability to identify, prioritize, and mitigate vulnerabilities faster than adversaries can exploit them is paramount. While visibility into exposures and vulnerabilities is crucial, it’s only the first step—without the ability to take effective action, visibility alone falls short.

In response to this urgent need, Balbix proudly introduces Balbix D3— the latest evolution of our cyber risk and exposure management platform. Balbix D3 brings together cutting-edge AI and automation to help organizations not only assess their attack surface but also take immediate action, hopefully shifting the balance of power in favor of defenders.

Packed with dozens of new capabilities, Balbix D3 is a significant leap forward in enabling faster and more effective exposure and cyber risk mitigation. In this blog, we’ll explore how the latest innovations in Balbix D3 empower security teams to unify their risk assessments, prioritize the most pressing threats, and take timely action— all through the power of AI and automation.

The Need for Speed in Exposure Remediation

Today’s threat landscape is unforgiving. Attackers are exploiting vulnerabilities much faster than previously known.  Recent reports such as Verizon DBIR 2024 suggested critical vulnerabilities are being exploited within just five days of their disclosure. Traditional approaches to vulnerability management often leave teams struggling to keep pace, relying on manual processes that are slow and error prone.

Balbix D3 addresses this challenge head-on by equipping cybersecurity teams with tools to go beyond detection and assessment, enabling them to rapidly act on the insights surfaced by Balbix’s AI-powered platform. With D3, our goal is to help organizations burn down exposures and vulnerabilities efficiently, closing exposure gaps before adversaries can exploit them.

Mobilizing for Cyber Risk Burndown

Balbix D3 builds on our existing capabilities for exposure management, introducing a host of features that make mitigations easier, faster, and more effective.

Rather than merely listing out vulnerabilities, Balbix D3 is designed to mobilize teams for action. It leverages AI to assess exposures across an organization’s entire digital environment—from infrastructure and applications to cloud and user behavior. By combining this broad visibility with deep contextual insights, D3 ensures that security and IT teams can focus their efforts where they matter most—on the exposures that pose the greatest risk.

Unified Risk Scoring for Effective Prioritization

A key innovation in Balbix D3 is its unified exposure risk scoring system. For the first time, organizations can assess and prioritize all types of vulnerabilities— whether related to CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures), application security risks, user behavior, or control gaps— using a single, risk-based framework.

This innovation allows teams to effectively compare and prioritize vulnerabilities across different domains, ensuring that their remediation efforts are focused on the areas that will have the greatest impact on reducing overall risk. This new capability has already demonstrated remarkable results, with early customers reporting reductions in IT workloads of 30-50% related to patching and exposure remediation.

The secret to this powerful risk scoring lies in Balbix’s use of Large Language Models (LLMs), which map vulnerabilities to MITRE ATT&CK Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs), as well as assessing how effective different security controls are in mitigating those threats. By understanding both the severity of the threat and the effectiveness of existing defenses, Balbix D3 provides a holistic view that enables informed decision-making.

Intelligent Remediation with Shapley Modeling

Traditionally, vulnerability management tools have focused on detection and reporting. They generate long lists of vulnerabilities, often leaving security teams with the daunting task of deciding where to start.

Balbix D3 changes the game by leveraging Shapley econometric modeling— a sophisticated approach to risk prioritization that identifies next-best steps based on their potential impact on reducing overall risk. This is akin to assessing the marginal value of each action, focusing on those that will deliver the most significant improvement in cybersecurity posture.

These prioritized actions are then mobilized into remediation projects, managed like agile sprints, complete with tickets that are assigned to owners and tracked to completion. By breaking down remediation efforts into manageable tasks, Balbix D3 ensures swift and coordinated action that moves the needle on risk reduction.

Conversational AI: Transforming Security Operations with BIX

In addition to providing exposure assessment and remediation capabilities, Balbix D3 also enhances the experience for security practitioners and leaders through BIX, — our AI-powered cybersecurity assistant.

First launched earlier this year, BIX has already transformed how security leaders access and interact with critical information. With the latest release, BIX has become even more capable. With a ChatGPT-like conversational interface, BIX makes it easy for security professionals to get answers to complex questions without waiting days or weeks for analysis.

For instance, a security leader can simply ask BIX for a status update on a remediation project and receive a detailed, up-to-the-minute report. Need to assess the potential impact of a new ransomware campaign? BIX can quickly provide a thorough analysis and suggest a fully mapped-out remediation plan, complete with tickets and assigned owners.

By enabling conversational interaction with our platform, BIX is helping to democratize access to security intelligence, empowering teams to act decisively and proactively.

Exposure Assessment Across all Your Attack Surfaces

Balbix has always embraced the philosophy of providing comprehensive, cross-ecosystem exposure assessment. With the introduction of Balbix D3, we’re doubling down on this approach, ensuring that our customers can bring together IT and security data from across their technology landscape—whether it comes from existing third-party tools, Balbix’s built-in scanners, or our Flex connector for custom environments

In D3, Balbix introduces enhanced integration support for all major AppSec tools, ensurig that application vulnerabilities can be assessed with infrastructure and other risks. This provides security teams with end-to-end visibility, from infrastructure to custom-built applications, ensuring that no critical gaps are left unmonitored.

What’s Next?

Balbix has long been at the forefront of exposure assessment, recognized by Gartner as a representative vendor in the Exposure Assessment Platforms (EAP) category. With the launch of Balbix D3, we are taking exposure management to the next level— providing the tools organizations need to go from insight to action quickly and efficiently.

Balbix D3 represents our most advanced set of capabilities yet, designed to help enterprises move beyond traditional vulnerability management and adopt a risk-centric approach to exposure management. With AI-powered prioritization, unified risk scoring, intelligent automation, and conversational AI support, Balbix D3 provides everything security teams need to stay one step ahead of attackers.

If you’re interested in learning more about how Balbix D3 can help your organization, visit balbix.com or contact us at sales@balbix.com.

Join us on this journey to accelerate risk reduction, transform security operations, and create a safer future for your organization.