Proactive Cybersecurity Strategy: Reducing Risk Ahead of Time

This article argues that organizations must adopt a proactive cybersecurity strategy—integrating External Attack Surface Management (EASM), Digital Risk Protection (DRP), and threat intelligence—to address shrinking time-to-exploit, breakout time, and dwell time; it highlights blind spots, alert fatigue, and the challenges of disconnected tools, and promotes Outpost24 CompassDRP as a unified solution to inventory exposed assets, correlate signals, and prioritize remediation.