Using AI to Maximize Your Security Posture and Minimize Threat Exposure

If you work in enterprise security, you’ve felt it: the growing pressure to deliver airtight defenses with fewer people, tighter budgets, and a stack of tools no one fully trusts. We’ve spent years trying to manage risk, but we’re still drowning in exposure—most of it caused by our own controls.

Gartner’s April 2025 report, Reduce Threat Exposure With Security Controls Optimization, makes it official: over 60% of security incidents stem from misconfigured controls. The takeaway? Misconfiguration isn’t just a technical debt—it’s a threat issue.

As someone who’s spent years in the trenches—from SOC playbooks to policy rollouts—I believe it’s time for a mindset shift. Security posture is no longer about what you bought. It’s about how well it’s tuned. And that’s where AI is changing the game.

The average enterprise juggles 43+ security tools. But few know if those tools are working as intended. Controls decay. Context gets lost. Settings collide with business processes. And worst of all? No one wants to touch them for fear of breaking something.

That’s where AI steps in. At Reclaim, we built the Productivity Impact Prediction Engine (PIPE™) to do what no human team can:

• Continuously assess your exposure across systems
• Predict the operational impact of changes before they’re made
• Autonomously implement business-safe fixes

With PIPE™, we’re not just finding issues—we’re fixing them. Automatically. Safely. At scale.

Gartner’s push for Outcome-Driven Metrics is long overdue. You can’t measure security by number of tools or alerts closed. You need to know:

• Are my controls actually reducing real risk?
• Can I prove it to the board?
• Is anything breaking because of what we fix?

Reclaim’s business-aware optimization model delivers those answers. We connect security changes to business impact—so you see resilience improve without disrupting users or ops.

Take our work with Telit Cinterion: we reduced their phishing exposure by 85% and saved 80% of manual effort, with zero business disruption. That’s what “tuned posture” looks like in practice.

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Ask any practitioner what slows remediation down and they’ll tell you: internal blockers. Security wants to fix. IT wants to protect uptime. Without shared visibility, nobody moves.

Gartner nails this: effective remediation requires cross-functional orchestration. Our approach mirrors that philosophy. PIPE™ synthesizes context from asset owners, IT, and security tools—automating policy deployment that everyone can live with.

It’s AI as a translator, negotiator, and executor.

Linking to CTEM: A Dynamic Defense

You can’t defend a dynamic environment with static controls. Gartner’s CTEM framework—Continuous Threat Exposure Management—is all about turning assessment into action. But for most orgs, “continuous” is aspirational at best.

That’s why Reclaim ties optimization directly to remediation. Our system adapts in real time, reshaping controls to reflect evolving threats, infrastructure changes, and user behavior. It’s not just exposure management—it’s exposure elimination.

When I think about the future of security, it’s not just more tools. It’s smarter use of what we already have. AI isn’t here to replace. It’s here to help us enforce security hygiene faster, cheaper, and with less risk.

At Reclaim, we built our platform to do exactly that:

• Real-time, business-aware remediation planning
• Autonomous policy deployment, monitored for user impact
• Continuous adaptation to drift, change, and threat evolution

The result? Measurable posture improvements, reduced manual efforts, and security that works with the business—not against it.

Final Thought: Optimize, or Fall Behind

Gartner’s Reduce Threat Exposure With Security Controls Optimization isn’t just a report, it’s a clarion call. As a co-founder of Reclaim Security, I’ve seen how their insights validate our mission: turning misconfigured chaos into a streamlined, effective defense. From the misconfiguration crisis to ROI-driven optimization, their findings align with our real-time, business-aware approach. This isn’t about selling a product—it’s about surviving a threat landscape that spares no one.

Security performance is the new frontier. If you can’t optimize, you can’t defend. Gartner’s latest report is a wake-up call, but it’s also a blueprint. AI makes this possible. And Reclaim makes it real.

Ready to turn exposure into elimination? Let’s Talk

Author: Roy Peretz, Co-Founder and CPO @ Reclaim Security
https://www.linkedin.com/in/roy-peretz/