Glasgow-based cybersecurity firm Acumen Cyber have announced a strategic partnership with AttackIQ, a leader in adversary-informed Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM). Together, the companies will help organisations identify, validate, and break the attack paths that create real adversary opportunity across modern enterprise environments.

As AI accelerates the speed of exploitation and adversaries increasingly weaponise exposures faster than organisations can remediate them, traditional approaches built around vulnerability counts, severity scores, and point-in-time assessments are no longer sufficient. Modern cyber defence requires organisations to continuously understand which exposures actually matter, how adversaries could leverage them to reach critical assets, and whether existing security controls have been proven capable of stopping those attacks.

The partnership brings together Acumen Cyber’s engineering-led security operations capabilities with AttackIQ’s adversary-informed CTEM platform to help organisations operationalise continuous validation and threat-informed defence. Together, the companies will enable customers to continuously test defensive effectiveness, prioritise the attack paths that matter most, and measure whether adversary opportunity is being systematically reduced over time.

By integrating AttackIQ’s CTEM capabilities into its security operations practice, Acumen Cyber will help organisations move beyond static exposure management toward a continuous, evidence-driven operational model focused on resilience outcomes. This includes validating preventive and detective controls against real-world adversary techniques, mapping viable attack paths across environments, and prioritising remediation based on proven operational impact rather than theoretical risk alone.

“Cybersecurity teams are overwhelmed with findings, yet many organisations still struggle to understand where they are truly exposed,” said Carl Wright, Chief Commercial Officer at AttackIQ.

“Threat Debt changes the conversation from managing lists of vulnerabilities to understanding and reducing accumulated adversary opportunity. Acumen Cyber’s engineering-led approach makes them an ideal partner to help customers operationalise CTEM in a way that continuously validates defences, prioritises what matters most, and proves measurable reduction in attacker opportunity over time.”

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Acumen Cyber has built its operational model around the principle that effective cyber defence requires continuous testing and validation against the behaviours adversaries actually use. Through the partnership with AttackIQ, Acumen’s engineers will continuously emulate adversary techniques mapped to frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK®, validate whether security controls prevent and detect those techniques, and help customers identify where control gaps, identity exposures, vulnerabilities, and misconfigurations combine into exploitable attack paths.

“Most organisations still operate security programs built around activity metrics instead of validated outcomes,” said Mark Robertson, CEO at Acumen Cyber.

“The reality is that adversaries exploit paths, not isolated findings. Our partnership with AttackIQ allows us to help customers continuously identify where attacker opportunity exists, validate whether defensive controls actually work under real-world conditions, and systematically reduce Threat Debt before those paths can be exploited.”