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C10 · CYBERSECURITY · 12-MONTH MIN · RUN · OUTCOME · SECURE

Fix what attackers can exploit.
Not everything a scanner can find.

C10 · ExposureOps™ is NexITC's managed continuous threat exposure operations retainer for UAE organisations that need to continuously identify, prioritise and close the exposures most likely to create a material attack path. Not another vulnerability scan. Not SOC alert management. Not a quarterly penetration test. A 12-month subscription running attack-surface discovery, exposure correlation, exploitability-led prioritisation, remediation governance, closure validation and monthly executive exposure reporting — with Practice Lead — Cybersecurity as named account owner. C10 complements C7 SecOpsCommand™. C10 reduces exploitable exposure before an incident occurs. C7 detects, triages and responds when security events occur.

COMMITMENT
12 mo min
SERVICE ELEMENTS
5 named
COMMERCIAL
Retainer
C10 · PROJECTION / MATERIAL EXPOSURE BACKLOG
C10
BASELINE
Severity-led
SEVERITY-LED BACKLOG
C10
TARGET
Exploitability-led
EXPLOITABILITY-LED CLOSURE
ONBOARD
BASELINE
STEADY
REVIEW
ATTACK SURFACE
KNOWN
MATERIAL EXPOSURES
PRIORITISED
REMEDIATION
SLA-BOUND
CLOSURE
VALIDATED
C10 · EXPOSUREOPS™
ILLUSTRATIVE
§ 00 · THESIS
01
WHY VULNERABILITY COUNT
IS NOT EXPOSURE RISK.

Most organisations do not have too little vulnerability data. They have too much.

Vulnerability scanners, cloud-security tools, endpoint platforms, penetration tests and external assessments continuously generate findings. The operational problem is deciding which findings create a realistic path to a material asset — and closing those first. Severity is one input. Exposure management adds reachability, exploitability, asset criticality, attacker activity and compensating controls. C10 operates that prioritisation and closure discipline continuously.

STATE · FINDING-RICH
Large vulnerability backlog. Multiple scanning sources. Prioritisation dominated by severity. Unknown external assets emerge periodically. Remediation teams spend capacity on findings that may not represent the highest real-world exposure.
STATE · EXPOSURE-MANAGED
Attack surface inventoried. Findings correlated. Material exposures prioritised using exploitability and business context. Remediation owners named. SLA enforced. Closure independently validated.
§ 01 · OPERATING STREAMS

Six operating streams,
run continuously and monthly.

STREAM 01
CONTINUOUS

Attack-surface & exposure discovery

Discover and reconcile in-scope internet-facing assets, cloud exposure and material security findings across approved data sources. This stream identifies exposure, not SOC alerts.

STREAM 02
CONTINUOUS

Exposure correlation & risk prioritisation

Correlate available findings and prioritise using exploitability, reachability, asset criticality, active threat context and existing compensating controls. C10 prioritises what is most likely to matter — not simply what carries the highest scanner severity.

OUTCOME
VALIDATED
EXPOSURE CLOSURE
EXPLOITABILITY-LED CLOSURE
STREAM 03
MONTHLY

Remediation ownership & SLA governance

Material exposures assigned to named remediation owners. Aging is governed against exposure priority, not merely CVSS severity. Chronic exceptions require explicit acceptance, compensating control or remediation path.

STREAM 04
CONTINUOUS

Threat-context enrichment

Relevant attacker activity, exploited vulnerabilities and available threat intelligence incorporated into exposure prioritisation where applicable to the customer's estate.

STREAM 05
MONTHLY

Closure validation

Material exposure closure is verified after remediation or compensating-control deployment. Ticket closure alone is not accepted as risk closure.

STREAM 06
MONTHLY

Executive exposure scorecard

Monthly reporting covering material exposures open, aging, remediation SLA, attack-surface change, closure rate and unresolved exceptions.

EXPLICITLY NOT COVERED
Security posture baseline
That's A4 Security Posture Scorecard™. A4 answers: Where are our material control gaps today? C10 answers: Which exploitable exposures are emerging and are we closing them fast enough?
Security-control implementation
That's B8 Controls Implementation Build™, B9 or another appropriate Build engagement.
SOC alert triage and incident response
That's C7 SecOpsCommand™. C10 findings may feed C7 context. C10 does not replace SOC operations.
Penetration testing
C10 validates exposure closure but is not a substitute for manual penetration testing or adversarial assessment.
OT/industrial-security hardening
Where exposure remediation requires changes inside OT/IoT environments, B12 OT/IoT Security Hardening Build™ governs the engineering scope.
§ 02 · ANNUAL CADENCE

Twelve-month subscription.
Onboard, baseline, steady state.

M01 · Onboard — exposure sources, asset scope, business criticality, remediation ownership and SLA model established. M02–03 · Baseline — findings correlated, material exposure model calibrated and first closure cycles operated. M04–12 · Steady state — continuous exposure discovery and prioritisation, monthly remediation governance, closure validation and executive reporting. M11 · Annual review — exposure trajectory and service scope reviewed before renewal.

Q 01Q 02Q 03Q 04M01 · OnboardM02–12 · Baseline → steady stateM11 · Annual reviewExposure sources, scope & SLA model establishedEND M 01Exposure trajectory & scope reviewedM 11 · ANNUAL REVIEWRenewalEND M 12OPERATING RHYTHMContinuous discovery & prioritisation · Monthly remediation governance · Monthly closurevalidation & reportingNAMED ACCOUNTABILITYPractice Lead — Cybersecurity (CEO escalation within 24hours)
§ 03 · OPERATING MODEL

Continuous exposure management,
not continuous scanning.

OPERATING MODEL · SIX STEPS
DISCOVER → REPORT
Continuous exposure management, not continuous scanning.
01
Exposure-source onboarding & attack-surface baseline
Approved data sources are inventoried. External assets are reconciled. Business criticality is attached where available. Initial material-exposure categories are defined. The first objective is not perfect asset inventory. It is enough reliable context to make prioritisation materially better than scanner severity alone.
02
Exposure correlation & prioritisation
Available findings are normalised into an exposure view. Where multiple tools report the same underlying condition, duplication is reduced. Prioritisation rules combine technical and business context. The model is reviewed periodically because the threat environment and business estate change.
03
Remediation ownership
Every material exposure must have an owner. C10 does not accept "infrastructure team" or "application team" as sufficient accountability where a specific system owner can be identified. Remediation aging is reviewed monthly with escalation for chronic exceptions.
04
Threat-led reprioritisation
A lower-priority exposure can move upward when exploit activity, external reachability or attacker behaviour changes. Likewise, compensating controls can legitimately reduce immediate remediation urgency. The operating model remains evidence-led rather than severity-led.
05
Closure validation
Material remediation is independently checked against the exposure condition. Where risk remains, closure is rejected or residual risk is explicitly documented. This prevents remediation dashboards from showing improvement that does not exist in the attack path.
06
Monthly executive review
The CISO and sponsor receive one view of: open material exposure; aging; closure; exceptions; attack-surface change; and ownership. The monthly review is where operational barriers are escalated. Reviews that repeatedly do not occur are themselves treated as a governance risk.
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DISCLOSURE · INDEPENDENCE
C10 is technology-independent. NexITC can operate across approved vulnerability management, cloud-security, attack-surface, endpoint and exposure-management technologies. Where additional tooling is justified, platforms are assessed against customer requirements rather than partner economics.
§ 04 · BASELINE VS MANAGED

From severity-led backlog
to exploitability-led closure.

BASELINE
TYPICAL STATE
STATE_01
Large vulnerability backlog
STATE_02
Severity-led prioritisation
STATE_03
External assets incompletely reconciled
STATE_04
Duplicate findings
STATE_05
Remediation closure assumed from ticket state
C10 · CADENCE
MANAGED
STEADY-STATE
MANAGED_01
Material attack surface visible
MANAGED_02
Exposure correlation active
MANAGED_03
Exploitability-led priority
MANAGED_04
Named remediation ownership
MANAGED_05
Closure validated
MANAGED_06
Executive exposure trajectory measured
↓ DISCOVER · CORRELATE · PRIORITISE · ASSIGN · VALIDATE · REPORT ↓

§ 05 · REPRESENTATIVE SCENARIO

A UAE enterprise,
from thousands of findings to a material exposure queue.

Illustrative composite — not a specific client.

SCENARIO / C10 / UAE ENTERPRISE · ILLUSTRATIVE COMPOSITE
COMMITMENT · 12 MO
SITUATION

An organisation has multiple vulnerability and cloud-security tools generating thousands of findings.

ENGAGEMENT

C10 correlates the available sources, applies business and exploitability context and establishes a smaller material-exposure queue with named remediation owners.

OUTCOME

Security leadership stops asking: “How many vulnerabilities do we have?” and starts asking: “How many material exposures remain open, how long have they remained open, and who owns closure?”

§ 06 · SERVICE ELEMENTS

Five service elements,
one exposure discipline.

E_01

Exposure Discovery

Attack-surface and exposure-source reconciliation.

E_02

Exposure Prioritisation

Exploitability, reachability, business criticality and threat context.

E_03 · CORE

Remediation Governance

Owners, SLA, aging, exceptions and escalation.

E_04

Closure Validation

Verification that remediation materially reduced the exposure.

E_05 · MONTHLY SCORECARD

Executive Exposure Scorecard

Monthly exposure trajectory and closure performance.

CADENCE
MONTHLY
§ 07 · OUTCOMES

Six outcome measures,
reviewed monthly.

Representative targets — not guaranteed results for a specific client.

01 · MATERIAL EXPOSURES OPEN
TRENDING ↓
02 · HIGH-RISK EXPOSURE AGING
SLA-MANAGED
03 · ATTACK-SURFACE COVERAGE
MEASURED
04 · REMEDIATION CYCLE TIME
TRENDING ↓
05 · VALIDATED CLOSURE RATE
TRENDING ↑
06 · EXECUTIVE REVIEW
MONTHLY
§ 08 · FIT

Honest scoping.

PREREQUISITES
Move fast when these conditions are in place at onboarding.
01
CISO or security counterpart

02
Existing exposure/vulnerability data sources

03
Named technical remediation owners

04
Asset criticality identifiable

05
12-month commitment

NOT SUITABLE IF
These patterns indicate a different engagement is a better fit.
You need a one-time posture baseline

→ A4 Security Posture Scorecard™

You primarily need controls implemented

→ B8/B9

You need detection and response operations

→ C7 SecOpsCommand™

You only require a periodic penetration test

→ use the appropriate assessment engagement.

§ 09 · COMMERCIAL

Managed retainer.
Monthly cadence. No surprises.

COMMERCIAL MODEL
Managed retainer, 12-month minimum

Pricing varies by attack-surface size, exposure-source count, environment complexity and SLA.

COMMITMENT & CADENCE

12-month minimum subscription with monthly delivery cadence. Renewal negotiated at annual review gate (M 11). Scope amendments negotiated through the Practice Lead.

INCLUDED IN SUBSCRIPTION
  • ✓Five named service elements
  • ✓Monthly executive scorecard
  • ✓Named Practice Lead
  • ✓Monthly remediation governance
  • ✓Quarterly optimisation review
  • ✓30/60/90-day onboarding gates
OUT OF SUBSCRIPTION
  • —Major remediation engineering
  • —New platform implementation
  • —Penetration testing
  • —Emergency incident response
COMMERCIAL PRINCIPLES
01

Retainer, not billable hours

No hourly billing. Subscription priced against service elements and SLA commitments agreed at kickoff.

02

12-month minimum commitment

The operating cadence needs time to establish. Shorter commitments produce onboarding costs without steady-state value.

03

Change orders authorised

Practice Lead has authority to negotiate scope amendments in the same conversation, not through a separate commercial cycle.

§ 10 · QUESTIONS

The questions security leaders actually ask.

Q_01Isn't this the vulnerability-management component of C7?

No.

C7 provides baseline vulnerability-aging governance as part of security operations.

C10 is the specialist service for continuous exposure discovery, cross-source correlation, exploitability-led prioritisation and validated exposure closure.

Q_02Do we need another scanner?
Not necessarily. C10 operates available data sources first.
Q_03Does C10 respond to incidents?
No. Incidents route to C7 or the customer's SOC/MSSP.
Q_04Does C10 replace A4?
No. A4 establishes the point-in-time posture and priority backlog. C10 runs continuous exposure reduction.
Q_05What does management receive?
A monthly view of material exposures, aging, closure, ownership and attack-surface changes.
§ 11 · NAMED ACCOUNTABILITY

One name.
Six accountabilities.

Specialist consulting means the person who onboards the retainer is the person who owns the cadence — with escalation to CEO on any material issue within 24 hours.

THE ROLE

Practice Lead — Cybersecurity

Named account owner for the duration of the retainer. Present at every monthly review. Available for escalation on material issues, with escalation to CEO within 24 hours.

SIX ACCOUNTABILITIES
01
Commercial arrangement

02
Exposure operating cadence

03
Monthly executive review

04
Scope/change control

05
Material-risk escalation

CEO within 24 hours.

06
SLA accountability

§ 12 · ADJACENT WORK

What runs before,
beside, and with C10.

A4 · ENTRY
PRIOR

Security Posture Scorecard™

A4 answers: Where are our material control gaps today?

Read A4 →
C7 · RUN
PEER

SecOpsCommand™

C10 reduces exploitable exposure before an incident occurs. C7 detects, triages and responds when security events occur.

Read C7 →
B8 · BUILD
ON DEMAND

Controls Implementation Build™

Security-control implementation.

Read B8 →
§ 13 · BOOK A CLINIC

30 minutes.
One exposure question.

Bring the exposure question blocking your board conversation. C10 is scoped in the clinic — exposure sources, asset scope, remediation owners, commitment appetite. If C10 is not the fit, the clinic surfaces the honest alternative.

CLINIC · C10
  • —Exposure and vulnerability data sources
  • —Asset scope and business criticality
  • —Remediation ownership
  • —Fit assessment against A4, B8/B9, C7
Practice Lead — Cybersecurity attends every clinic.